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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Expect command when triggered by launchd Post 302735193 by rowie718 on Friday 23rd of November 2012 05:47:51 PM
Old 11-23-2012
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Originally Posted by DGPickett
So, your expectations were thrown off by quoting and escqping? Well, that's layering for you. Good luck!
Not quite. I had been playing around with escaping and quoting and that wasn't the piece I was missing. The problem was that as soon as the first expect pattern was matched, and the appropriate response sent, the expect command exited, giving no time for the actual spawned process to run and complete. Adding another expect pattern that will not be matched means the expect command runs until it times out looking for that pattern. This approach gives us enough time for the spawned process (slapconfig) to conplete.

Not sure why it reacts differently based on launchd trigger, but this solution works.
 

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SLIST(1)							       slist								  SLIST(1)

NAME

       slist - Lists available NetWare Servers

SYNOPSIS

       slist [ pattern ]

DESCRIPTION

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BUGS

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