I have a program that i have to run by cron. The program needs user input. So i have to automate that in a littke script.

start of script program.sh:

result=program.log; export result
echo Program starting : `date` >> $result
/usr/local/program >> $result
echo Program running : `date` >> $result


The program normally asks for a string (a pass phrase).
How can i do this ?

I know i have to use something like :

/usr/local/program >> $result 2>&1 <<eof
blablablabla
eof

but i don't get it to work

Thanks in advance