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expect script running screen stops working when run by cron

I hope this question is OK for this forum. I have a device, a modem. I talk to this modem with the linux program "screen" as a terminal program. I invoke it like this "/usr/bin/screen /dev/tty6". I need to send about 6 commands per session or so. …
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#!/usr/bin/expect not working

This is probably an easy question, however have a simple expect script that I've add the executable bit to that seems to be ignoring the #!/usr/bin/expect interpreter line. Further more, it also seems like variables are not being set since when I…
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expect: how to use expect scripts from within a bash subroutine

I want to write a login script in expect. But I want this to be reused in different other scripts. I want to make all the login commands part of a bash subroutine. ie instead of expect_login.sh #!/bin/usr/expect -f spawn .... set .... I want…
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Error while installing php extension 'expect'

I got some serious error while installing expect extension in PHP. I ran sudo pecl install channel://pecl.php.net/expect-0.3.1 I got error like this while running make, running: make /bin/bash…
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expect script works fine standalone not from bash script

I am running a expect script,which login to a server check if iptables running and return the log file of the status. There is a hostfile also given with server list and password, expect is being called from a shell script which it sending correct…
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expect script not working with bash script

I want a script that ssh to remote server and then run a script which is at my local machine and then store the output on my local machine Expect script for ssh to remote server: #!/usr/bin/expect -f set Timeout 2 set IPaddress…
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expect script + how to perform case in expect script

the following expect script target is to print the hostname name from linux/solaris machine and according to hostname results expect script will run linux.ksh or solaris.ksh script expect_sun_script=`cat << EOF set timeout -1 spawn telnet 0…
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How to listen for SNMP Traps from SNMP enabled network devices?

I just began working for my school's networking department, and I was assigned a project to develop a program to listen for traps from SNMP network devices. The device I am testing with an Access Point Cisco Aironet 1242, I have been looking on line…
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ssh + multiple ssh connection failed

I have 47 Linux client machines and one Solaris server machine (all Linux client machines are red-hat 5.1) all clients perform ssh connection to the server in order to verify if /tmp/generic_error.txt exist in the server clients do the ssh…
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Scripting around Curses?

I have a process I'm that I'm constantly having to deal with. It requires I run a command and then enter several pieces of information. Then I'm presented with a curses menu listing several options. The first half is easy to automate using…
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Setup a minimum workable Linux server on PC and get private IP address

The scenario is I want to use Expect to automatize some daily routine tasks to check log servers with private IP addresses. Telnet/SSH to those servers from a Linux server with public IP address won't work. Any way to set up a workable linux…
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Linux Expect Script terminates too early

I have an expect script that I have written that at the end calls scp to copy a large file from server A to server B. The issue I have (which is the same using rsync and not scp) is that the expect script is terminating before the file transfer is…
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What is wrong with my expect script?

I'm trying to learn how to use the expect command, to help me automate deployment of some software via shell scripts, and figured I start with something simple to get me started. I've created a file in my home dir called 'foo' using: touch foo And…
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Using expect to automate Alpine Linux installation in FreeBSD in Bhyve

I am attempting to automate installation of Alpine Linux in vm-bhyve under FreeBSD and expect dies shortly after the boot menu times out and launches the Alpine Linux installation. #!/usr/bin/env expect spawn vm install -f alpine alpine.iso #…
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Merging Expect script and Bash script

This is my expect script for login into a remote server.where i ask user to put password. #!/usr/bin/expect -f #Grabbing Password to be used in script further stty -echo send_user -- "Enter the Password: " expect_user -re "(.*)\n" send_user…
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