Enhancement Advisory new package: pexpect

Advisory: RHEA-2008:0452-3
Type: Product Enhancement Advisory
Severity: N/A
Issued on: 2008-05-21
Last updated on: 2008-05-21
Affected Products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
OVAL: N/A

Details

A new pexpect package for assisting with remote access tasks is now
available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

Pexpect is a pure Python module for spawning child applications,
controlling them, and responding to expected patterns in their output.
Pexpect works like Don Libes' Expect. Pexpect allows your script to spawn a
child application and control it as if a human were typing commands.
Pexpect can be used for automating interactive applications such as ssh,
ftp, passwd, telnet, etc. It can also be used to automate setup scripts for
duplicating software package installations on different servers and for
automated software testing.

All users requiring pexpect should install this newly-released package,
which adds this enhancement.


Solution

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released
errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use
the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_58_10188

Updated packages

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)

SRPMS:
pexpect-2.3-1.el5.src.rpm     8ae2d40c64be0b3620e865fe68166203
 
IA-32:
pexpect-2.3-1.el5.noarch.rpm     237c6cf8f3709ddcfb32c467ac0501af
 
IA-64:
pexpect-2.3-1.el5.noarch.rpm     237c6cf8f3709ddcfb32c467ac0501af
 
PPC:
pexpect-2.3-1.el5.noarch.rpm     237c6cf8f3709ddcfb32c467ac0501af
 
s390x:
pexpect-2.3-1.el5.noarch.rpm     237c6cf8f3709ddcfb32c467ac0501af
 
x86_64:
pexpect-2.3-1.el5.noarch.rpm     237c6cf8f3709ddcfb32c467ac0501af
 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)

SRPMS:
pexpect-2.3-1.el5.src.rpm     8ae2d40c64be0b3620e865fe68166203
 
IA-32:
pexpect-2.3-1.el5.noarch.rpm     237c6cf8f3709ddcfb32c467ac0501af
 
x86_64:
pexpect-2.3-1.el5.noarch.rpm     237c6cf8f3709ddcfb32c467ac0501af
 
(The unlinked packages above are only available from the Red Hat Network)


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