remote problems using ssh

[Doug Reiland]

I am using version 1.4.3 and had a time getting dejagnu to work with ssh. It 
looks like real problems with rsh.exp, but then everybody would be seeing 
this.

> From googling, it seems that I should be able to use ssh by creating a 
boards file with:

set_board_info rsh_prog /usr/bin/ssh
set_board_info rcp_prog /usr/bin/scp
set_board_info shell_prompt "remote:"
set_board_info hostname "some_remote_host"
set_board_info username "some_user"

Also, I set target somewhere to unix

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This didn't get me far. It still looked to fire off telnet so I added:

set_board_info protocol rsh

Then  I saw ssh being kicked off, but it didn't work. I straced runtest and 
saw that ssh was not being passed the hostname.

That is when I started to look at rsh.exp. First, the var. hostname in 
rsh.exp is coming in as unix. I guess this is normal.

First, it looks like rsh.exp is looking to find the remote system name in 
the boards file by looking for "name".
    -- Are we supposed to use set_board_info hostname or set_board_info 
name??

Next, this section of rsh.exp is wiping out hostname.

set hostname [lindex [ split [board_info ${hostname} netport ":"]  0]
    -- I don't use any netport option in my boards file.
    -- I put a check to make sure it exits.

Now, hostname variable is changed to the remote system name, but rsh.exp 
keeps using it to do board_info lookups for fileid and shell_prompt. This 
causes shell_prompt to not be found and the whole parsing waiting for shell 
prompt to time out.

It seems like rsh.exp shouldn't change hostname (better yet call it 
something else and set hostname to whatever it reads in the board file.

I worked another this for now in rsh.exp. Am I off track? or is rsh.exp 
really broken??

Thanks,
Doug