[Tutor] REG : Pexpect timeout issue

Alan Gauld alan.gauld at yahoo.co.uk
Sat Sep 1 15:33:35 EDT 2018


On 01/09/18 12:41, krishna chaitanya via Tutor wrote:

> Below is my code, i am frequently hitting timeout issue to login to linux or router.

Have you tried extending the timeout?


> child = spawn('su xxxxx',timeout = 50)

What is the timeout interval? If its in milliseconds
then 50 is much too short, try 5000.
If its in seconds then you have a problem...

How long does it take to connect manually using ssh?

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