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On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 12:02 AM, Nikunj Verma <nik...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I guess your expect command, which you kept in the expstart.sh file is not
> getting launched at all. You can check this by checking the exit status of
> the expect command in your shell script. Also, did you try giving full path
> name of the expect binary in your command? That might be the reason your
> command is not getting run at all.
>
> Thanks,
> -Nikunj
>
> On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 11:33 PM, Farhad Sabeti <fsab...@alarmpoint.com>wrote:
>
>> Hello every body,
>>
>> I just subscribed to this mailing list, not sure if it is working properly
>> or not.
>>
>>
>>
>> I am using STAF for the automation infrastructure and using expect for
>> more interactive automation.
>>
>> On a Linux server I have written an expect script to automate installation
>> of our product and its working fine. But when I use STAF from a remote
>> machine, it won’t work. Other shell commands work fine (like dir, chmod, ….)
>> but running expect <filename> does not work. Was wondering if anyone knows
>> why. It simply executes the command and nothing happens.
>>
>> I put my expect command in a shell script like this:
>>
>>
>>
>> #!/bin/sh
>>
>> expect
>> /usr/local/expect/expect-5.43/testsuite/expect.tests/apinstfinal.exp
>> /usr/local/expect/expect-5.43/testsuite/expect.tests/installinput.txt
>>
>>
>>
>> and called it expstart.sh
>>
>>
>>
>> and on the target machine when I do ./expstart.sh, it runs it and works
>> just fine.
>>
>>
>>
>> But when I use STAF command:
>>
>>
>>
>> ‘start shell command
>> “/usr/local/expect/expect-5.43/testsuite/expect.tests/expstart.sh” WAIT’
>>
>>
>>
>> It won’t work.
>>
>>
>>
>> I then created another shell file called dirh.sh and put a simple dir in
>> that shell file and redirected output to some file like t4.out, it works
>> fine, like below:
>>
>>
>>
>> ‘start shell command
>> “/usr/local/expect/expect-5.43/testsuite/expect.tests/dirh.sh >/root/t4.out”
>> WAIT’
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> But when shell file has expect, it won’t work.
>>
>> (I also put >/root/t3.out ) in shell command for the expect shell scrip to
>> capture the output, and it comes up empty.
>>
>>
>>
>> Any help is appreciated.
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>>
>>
>> Farhad
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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> Thanks,
> -Nikunj
>
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