Using expect command, spawn will not start sftp process
Hi all,
I have a script that runs sftp with expect so I can login and send a file in a cronjob. I've installed this on a couple other servers and it has been fine. However, this time on this machine, it seems to be giving me an issue. It won't move past the spawn sftp command and return a linux PID.
First the basics:
The server is running Red Hat Linux Release 7.3 (Valhalla)
uname -a shows Linux 2.4.20-28.7smp #1 SMP i686
When I run it with the -d flag to see what is happening, I get this output:
Code:
expect version 5.45
argv[0] = /usr/bin/expect argv[1] = -d argv[2] = ./scriptname.ftp
set argc 0
set argv0 "./scriptname.ftp"
set argv ""
executing commands from command file ./scriptname.ftp
spawn sftp username@secureftp.ftpserver.com
parent: waiting for sync byte
parent: telling child to go ahead
parent: now unsynchronized from child
And that is where it stops. It does not give me "spawn: returns [PID number]" and does not move on.
Any ideas? What am I missing here?
I appreciate any help you can give me, I've been searching and searching for an answer to no avail.
Thank you,
Laura
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LEARN ABOUT X11R4
sftp-server
sftp-server(1M) System Administration Commands sftp-server(1M)NAME
sftp-server - SFTP server subsystem
SYNOPSIS
/usr/lib/ssh/sftp-server
DESCRIPTION
sftp-server implements the server side of the SSH File Transfer Protocol as defined in the IETF draft-ietf-secsh-filexfer.
sftp-server is a subsystem for sshd(1M) and must not be run directly. There are no options or config settings.
To enable the sftp-server subsystem for sshd add the following to /etc/ssh/sshd_config:
Subsystem sftp /usr/lib/ssh/sftp-server
See sshd_config(4) for a description of the format and contents of that file.
There is no relationship between the protocol used by sftp-server and the FTP protocol (RFC 959) provided by in.ftpd.
EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned:
0 Successful completion.
>0 An error occurred.
FILES
/usr/lib/sftp-server
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWsshdu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Interface Stability |Evolving |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO sftp(1), ssh(1), ssh-add(1), ssh-keygen(1), sshd(1M), sshd_config(4), attributes(5)
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AUTHOR
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SunOS 5.10 30 Jul 2003 sftp-server(1M)