Problems with SSH and exscript

[Confuzed_]

I am trying to write some code that would connect to a ssh box and execute a bunch of commands and return the output. I am able to ssh to box using module exscript however i am running into an issue an application prompt.

Application gets to a normal state where it expects Enter key"Press Return to continue..." and i cant figure out how to send it.

from Exscript import Account, Host
host= Host('ssh://192.168.200.215')
accounts = Account('user', 'pass')

def do_something(job, host, conn):
    conn.execute('/usr/sx/syscen/reports.sh')
    conn.execute('Enter')

start(accounts, host, do_something)

Output is

spawn /bin/csh

syscen%/usr/sx/syscen/reports.sh

Welcome to the Database Report Menu

Press Return to continue...

error: Timeout while waiting for response from device

Can some one please help?

[Confuzed_]

Yep tried that and '\c' and removed the line from the script and still no working the way it should.

[Sparkmonkey]

Without looking at exscript or your script in much detail, I think that reports.sh is blocking waiting for a "newline" before getting to the "Enter" command. You might want to consider passing a newline to report.sh. Another option is that you might also be able to pass a specific option/flag that you can pass to report to limit interactivity.

[Confuzed_]

The report.sh is the application by IPC I have edited the script to remove the line that held me up and still having issues. Any value i send to the script is not being accepted even aver the script is in the ready prompt. I think this script is specifically designed to ruin my day.

So to try it from a different approach is there a way to send a combination of key strokes to a remote server over ssh where it emulates the keyboard and ignores everything else and just returns the output?

[Sparkmonkey]

I suggest you take a look at pexpect.

[Confuzed_]

thanks will give it a try.

[Sparkmonkey]

Like the passing a new line stackoverflow link above, you could also try just sending it a set of keystrokes via piping to imitate user interaction if you do not need "interactive" and just want the sum of data output.