Since you are driving the interaction remotely and possibly dealing with multiple logins concurrently the way I'd do this is to use an interact for each spawn_id (after successful setup) with a procedure that periodically polls the remote filesystem, makes the necessary changes and informs you of completion or error.
Here is a basic example from some code I wrote several years ago. You may want to check the interact examples out at the expect site and at active state.
I have a shell script that runs all the time looking for a certain type of file and then it processes the file through a series of other scripts. The script is watching a directory that has files uploaded to it via SFTP. It already checks the size of the file to make sure that it is not still... (3 Replies)
I need a script that will check for the existence of new files that FTP'd in the morning, results go to log file. The 2nd step is to compare the new file with the previous days file. If the new file size is 30% or more smaller in size then previous day this needs to also be sent to log.
This... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I have an expect script that logs into a host (via ssh) requests the hostid then exits... I am happy with that.
However how can I run the same script in a kind of 'while read line' and enter lots of hosts? My knowledge is still very limited (as you will soon see) so any other ideas would... (2 Replies)
Hello to all...this is my first post (so please go easy). :)
I feel pretty solid at expect scripting, but I'm running into an issue that I'm not able to wrap my head around. I wrote a script that is a little advanced for logging into a remote Linux machine and changing text in a file using sed.... (2 Replies)
Hi,
Another problem, here is my code
#!/bin/sh
dir='/opt/apps/script/CSV'
datadir='/opt/apps/script/data'
while : ; do
ls -1rt $dir/*.csv > /dev/null 2>&1
if ;then
cp $datadir/weekly.txt $dir/weekly.csv
else
exit 0
fi
done (10 Replies)
I will appreciate any help with this...
I have a file in this directory that looks like: this
07210900.SUP, I am getting the following error:
Activities for Tue Jul 21 07:29:14 EDT 2009:
File 07210900.SUP does not exist or unreadable
End of activities
The idea is to capture the file in... (1 Reply)
This Expect script provides expect with a list of IP addresses to Cisco IPS sensors and commands to configure Cisco IPS sensors. The user, password, IP addresses, prompt regex, etc. have been anonymized. In general this script will log into the sensors and send commands successfully but there are... (1 Reply)
Hi All,
Thanks in Advance
I wrote the following code
if
then
echo "version is 1.1"
for i in "subscriber promplan mapping dedicatedaccount faflistSub faflistAcc accumulator pam_account"
do
FILE="SDP_DUMP_$i.csv"
echo "$FILE"
... (5 Replies)
I'm fairly new to scripting so this might not be possible.
I am using Expect with Cisco switches and need to capture the string after finding the expect request. For example, when I issue "show version" on a Nexus switch, I'm looking to capture the current firmware version:
#show version
... (0 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
hostname
HOSTNAME(5) /etc/hostname HOSTNAME(5)NAME
hostname - Local host name configuration file
SYNOPSIS
/etc/hostname
DESCRIPTION
The /etc/hostname file configures the name of the local system that is set during boot, with the sethostname(2) system call. It should
contain a single newline-terminated host name string. The host name may be a free-form string up to 64 characters in length, however it is
recommended that it consists only of 7bit ASCII lower-case characters and no spaces or dots, and limits itself to the format allowed for
DNS domain name labels, even though this is not a strict requirement.
Depending on the operating system other configuration files might be checked for configuration of the host name as well, however only as
fallback.
HISTORY
The simple configuration file format of /etc/hostname originates from Debian GNU/Linux.
SEE ALSO systemd(1), sethostname(2), hostname(1), hostname(7), machine-id(5), machine-info(5)AUTHOR
Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>
Developer
systemd 10/07/2013 HOSTNAME(5)