Thanks every one I got it working.
I used STDOUT to log the output and did a tail –f on the .out file and saw that new prompt is now called bash-3.2 instead of my normal root@<mahcinename>. And so I changed the entry into my properties file (which I pass to my expect script as argument) from which the prompt key is read to the new prompt, and it is working. Thanks again every one. I appreciate your help. Best Regards, Farhad From: David Bender [mailto:bda...@us.ibm.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 1:39 PM To: Farhad Sabeti Cc: Paul Ellsworth; staf-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [staf-users] Can not run expect using STAF automation Can you try creating an empty STDIN file (something like /tmp/stdin.txt) on the system where the expect script is running, and then add the STDIN option to the PROCESS START request: ‘start shell command “/usr/local/expect/expect-5.43/testsuite/expect.tests/expstart.sh” RETURNSTDOUT STDERRTOSTDOUT STDIN /tmp/stdin.txt WAIT’ Thanks, David ________________________________ David Bender <http://w3.ibm.com/bluepages/simpleSearch.wss?searchBy=Name&searchFor=David+Bender> STAF/STAX Development IBM Software Group, WPLC 11501 Burnet Rd. Bldg. 903-5B002 Austin, TX 78758-3400 Phone (T/L): 1-512-286-5315 (363-5315) ITN: 23635315 Email: bda...@us.ibm.com <mailto:bda...@us.ibm.com> ________________________________ "Farhad Sabeti" <fsab...@alarmpoint.com> 10/21/2009 03:26 PM To Paul Ellsworth/San Jose/i...@ibmus cc staf-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject Re: [staf-users] Can not run expect using STAF automation Thanks Paul, Nikunj and David for your replies, So, I did add more debugging and investigation as you guys suggested and added the export SHELL=/bin/bash and now got expect to run my script. But then it just hangs in there. I will have to put some logging command inside the expect script to see why it is hanging. My guess is that it is not seeing the prompt which I am waiting for. It looks as though the shell that expect script is to perform its operations is not visible to the script. Not sure what is going on. I will have to put some logging stuff inside my expect script to figure out what is happening once expect script is running. (using STAF). Thanks again, Farhad From: Paul Ellsworth [mailto:pell...@us.ibm.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 12:15 PM To: Farhad Sabeti Cc: staf-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [staf-users] Can not run expect using STAF automation Could it be that expect is not in the PATH that the STAF process's environment has defined? I ran into this issue while testing and fixed it by editing the /usr/local/staf/STAFEnv.sh to include my product's binary directory in the PATH. It could be that expect is in the target machine's login profile PATH env var but not in STAF's env var... - Paul Ellsworth "Farhad Sabeti" ---10/21/2009 11:10:40 AM---Hello every body, I just subscribed to this mailing list, not sure if it is working From: "Farhad Sabeti" <fsab...@alarmpoint.com> To: <staf-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Date: 10/21/2009 11:10 AM Subject: [staf-users] Can not run expect using STAF automation ________________________________ 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. 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