It wasnt anything about launchd session types or anything else. After reading a bit of the book "Exploring Expect", I followed up on a hint they gave about adding another expect line so the expect command doesnt end as soon as the first match is made and responded to. Here is the code that works, which is in a larger bash script:
For context, and hopefully to help other folks backing up mac servers, here is the larger bash script (which is a modified/updated older script I found online). It has been tested on 10.8.2 and works whether triggered via command line or launchdaemon (must be run as root). Adjust parameters at top of the script. The two variables with brackets (< and >) are required:
I need to run a remote application(GUI) in a client.i.e on running a script in the client machine i should get the GUI application which is running in the server by providing password through the script.Will expect or autoexpect command suit for this scenario?
could anyone help me by posting some... (0 Replies)
Hi,
i'm planning a to automate my backup with a rsync user deamon in my launchd and let that run every 2 hours.
my server contains a lot of video data which can expand rapidly , up to 1TB, in an interval of 2 hours.
now i'm wondering what will happen when a rsync is running longer then the... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I'm trying to use launchd to detect whether certain ports are opened
and if they are then to take some appropriate action, e.g. close the
port or, worst case scenario, down the whole net connection. Apparently,
force closing a port is not possible without killing the offending binary so... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I need an alert to be triggered if any filesystem(imagine there are n no of filesystems) reaches more than 90%, it should send an alert to the mailbox stating which filesystem is at what percentage. How can I achieve this in unix?
Many thanks. (8 Replies)
Hi,
I am using following commands in my script to send a password to scp command. Everything is working fine except that I need a return code from the scp command. Do any one have an idea how to receive the exit code of scp command from expect.
/usr/bin/expect << EOF
spawn -noecho scp -pq... (0 Replies)
Hi All,
I need help in making my script run perfectly as expected.
This is a snippet from my script. I am trying to read the ";" from the below output using the expect command, but the command is not detecting it. Could you please help me correct the expect string?
Snippet:
----
---... (2 Replies)
Ok, so I have been struggling with this for a few days and I think I need an explanation of a few things before I go any further. I'm not sure it's possible to do what I'm trying, so before I pull my hair out, here is what I'm doing:
I have written a program in LiveCode that sits on our... (2 Replies)
Is there any way to trigger a sequence of commands in parallel and capture their output in variables? e.g. something on the following lines
x=`echo "X" &`
y=`echo "Y" &`
z=`echo "Z" &`
so that $x, $y, and $z evaluate to X, Y and Z res. (7 Replies)
I have a bash script on server that runs fine when run interactively and writes stderr output to a file.
However, when invoked through a 'expect' script run on Mac OS my laptop which does ssh to the server : generates the expected file, but file has no content. I suspect the stderr is getting... (1 Reply)
hi,
Currently, in my code, the errors are written in log file.
Additionally, i need to trigger the email of error captured. can we modify this script with email triggered along with existing command.
echo "ERROR: $SCRIPT: $*" >>$LOGFILE (1 Reply)
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LEARN ABOUT FREEBSD
service
SERVICE(8) BSD System Manager's Manual SERVICE(8)NAME
service -- control (start/stop/etc.) or list system services
SYNOPSIS
service -e
service -R
service [-v] -l | -r
service [-v] <rc.d script> start|stop|etc.
DESCRIPTION
The service command is an easy interface to the rc.d system. Its primary purpose is to start and stop services provided by the rc.d scripts.
When used for this purpose it will set the same restricted environment that is in use at boot time (see below). It can also be used to list
the scripts using various criteria.
The options are as follows:
-e List services that are enabled. The list of scripts to check is compiled using rcorder(8) the same way that it is done in rc(8), then
that list of scripts is checked for an "rcvar" assignment. If present the script is checked to see if it is enabled.
-R Restart all enabled local services.
-l List all files in /etc/rc.d and the local startup directories. As described in rc.conf(5) this is usually /usr/local/etc/rc.d. All
files will be listed whether they are an actual rc.d script or not.
-r Generate the rcorder(8) as in -e above, but list all of the files, not just what is enabled.
-v Be slightly more verbose
ENVIRONMENT
When used to run rc.d scripts the service command sets HOME to / and PATH to /sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin which is how they are set in
/etc/rc at boot time.
EXIT STATUS
The service utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
EXAMPLES
The following are examples of typical usage of the service command:
service named status
service -rv
The following programmable completion entry can be use in bash(1) for the names of the rc.d scripts:
_service () {
local cur
cur=${COMP_WORDS[COMP_CWORD]}
COMPREPLY=( $( compgen -W '$( service -l )' -- $cur ) )
return 0
}
complete -F _service service
SEE ALSO bash(1) (ports/shells/bash), rc.conf(5), rc(8), rcorder(8)HISTORY
The service utility first appeared in FreeBSD 7.3.
AUTHORS
This manual page was written by Douglas Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>.
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