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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Expect script not executing via cron Post 302977596 by KingT617 on Wednesday 20th of July 2016 08:33:33 AM
Old 07-20-2016
Thanks for the reply Corona688. I must've pasted an older version of the script. Either way, I removed the # but the script continues to give no output or result. Just the same cron log entry showing the job getting kicked off and nothing else. Here's an updated version of what the script looks like:

Code:
#!/usr/bin/expect -f
export PATH=/usr/bin:TH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
 spawn "/home/scripts/myscript.sh"
 expect "Select Operation" { send "1\r" }
 expect "Select TMS6 Snapshot Type" { send "1\r" }
 set timeout 600
expect eof
exit

 

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LEARN ABOUT BSD

uupoll

UUPOLL(8)						      System Manager's Manual							 UUPOLL(8)

NAME

       uupoll - poll a remote UUCP site

SYNOPSIS

       uupoll [ -ggrade ] [ -n ] system

DESCRIPTION

       Uupoll is used to force a poll of a remote system. It queues a null job for the remote system and then invokes uucico(8).

       The following options are available:

       -ggrade Only send jobs of grade grade or higher on this call.

       -n      Queue the null job, but do not invoke uucico.

       Uupoll is usually run by cron(5) or by a user who wants to hurry a job along. A typical entry in crontab could be:

	    0	 0,8,16    *	*    *	  /usr/bin/uupoll ihnp4
	    0	 4,12,20   *	*    *	  /usr/bin/uupoll ucbvax
       This will poll ihnp4 at midnight, 0800, and 1600, and ucbvax at 0400, noon, and 2000.

       If the local machine is already running uucico every hour and has a limited number of outgoing modems, a more elegant approach might be:

	    0	 0,8,16    *	*    *	  /usr/bin/uupoll -n ihnp4
	    0	 4,12,20   *	*    *	  /usr/bin/uupoll -n ucbvax
	    5	 *	   *	*    *	  /usr/sbin/uucico -r1
       This will queue null jobs for the remote sites at the top of hour; they will be processed by uucico when it runs five minutes later.

FILES

       /etc/uucp/	  UUCP internal files
       /usr/spool/uucp/   Spool directory

SEE ALSO

       uucp(1), uux(1), uucico(8)

4.3 Berkeley Distribution					 October 23, 1996							 UUPOLL(8)
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