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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Expect script with file input problems Post 302200631 by meberline on Thursday 29th of May 2008 03:52:53 PM
Old 05-29-2008
Expect script with file input problems
Hello,
I am trying to write an expect script that will ssh into a large number of Cisco routers and add some commands via the cli. The script I wrote works great for one host however I have over 350 routers that this needs to be added to. The problem is I cannot get the script to read the file of hosts. Below is the shell script and the expect script. The host file is called host_list. Any suggestions would be very much appreciated as I am about to pull my hair out. Thanks.

[~]$ cat pan_hosts
#!/usr/local/bin/bash
cat ./host_list | while read hosts; do
./pan $LINE
done

--------

[~]$ cat pan
#!/usr/local/bin/expect
set host [lindex $argv 0]
spawn ssh -l root $host
set timeout 7
expect "assword: $"
send "xxxxxxxxx\n"
expect "#"
send "config t\n"
expect "onfig)#"
send "ntp server 10.10.1.89 prefer\n"
expect "onfig)#"
send "ntp source vlan 1\n"
expect "onfig)#"
send "clock timezone CST -6\n"
expect "onfig)#"
send "clock summer-time CDT recurring\n"
expect "onfig)#"
send "access-list 88 permit 65.242.29.0 0.0.0.255\n"
expect "onfig)#"
send "access-list 88 permit 24.182.133.64 0.0.0.7\n"
expect "onfig)#"
send "snmp-server community xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx rw 88\n"
expect "onfig)#"
send "exit\n"
expect "#"
send "wr\n"
expect "#"
send "exit\n"
 

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send-nntp

SEND-UUCP(8)						      System Manager's Manual						      SEND-UUCP(8)

NAME

       send-nntp, send-ihave - send Usenet articles to remote site

SYNOPSIS

       send-nntp [ -d ] sitename:hostname | sitename [ sitename:hostname | sitename ..	]

       send-ihave [ -d ] sitename:hostname | sitename [ sitename:hostname | sitename ..  ]

DESCRIPTION

       The send-* utilities are scripts that process the batch files written by innd(8) to send Usenet articles to a remote NNTP site.

       The sites to be fed may be specified by giving sitename hostname pairs on the command line.

       The sitename is the label the site has in the newsfeeds file, the hostname is the real hostname of the remote site, a FQDN (Fully Qualified
       Domain Name).  Normally, the sitename and the hostname are the same, and as such don't have to be specified as sitename:hostname pairs  but
       just as a sitename.

       send-nntp starts an innxmit to send the articles to the remote site.

       send-ihave  encapsulates  the articles in an ihave control message and uses inews to send the articles to a to.sitename pseudo-group. Using
       send-ihave is discouraged, nobody uses it anymore and even the author of this manpage is unsure as to how it  actually  works  or  used	to
       work.

       send-*  expect  that  the batchfile for a site is named <pathoutgoing in inn.conf>/sitename.  To prevent batchfile corruption, shlock(1) is
       used to ``lock'' these files.

OPTIONS

       -d     The ``-d'' flag causes nntpsend to send output to stdout rather than the log file <pathlog in inn.conf>/<program-name>.log.

NOTES

       You should probably not use send-nntp, but innfeed, or if that is not possible, nntpsend.

       The usual flags for a batch file for send-nntp are ``Tf,Wfm''.

SEE ALSO

       newsfeeds(5), nntpsend(8)

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