But, whether or not they are the same topic, I don't understand why you are trying to rewrite code to perform what rsync already does??? What makes you think that rsync only compares file sizes to determine if a file has changed?
Amen to that!
In addition: whenever you start to use expect this is the confession that something went horribly wrong in your setup.
If you plan your authorisation correctly you should never have to rely on expect (which is just a way of having passwords written in cleartext into scripts typed automatically into forms) but use (preexchanged) keys or something similar. Instead of fiddling around with expect-scripts you should simply test for a possible ssh-connection and raise an error if that doesn't work (because keys are not exchanged, are invalid or some other reason).
Here is how i do that. It first tests for IP-connectivity and then - if that is possible - for ssh-connectivity:
Notice that you will have to adjust this if you deal with hosts in DMZs or behind firewalls, because they often block attempts to ping the host.
Hi, I'm writing a shell script that calls a few commands that prompt the user for two simple yes/no questions. if the answers are consistent (the first is a yes, the second is a no), what would my expect script look like? Google is only giving me answers for scripts where I telnet or ssh. right now... (3 Replies)
And not to start. I can compare files, that's easy. The problem is that I compare files in a directory, and check if these files exist in another directory. The problem is that the file names are not the same. So I have to compare with "md5sum" or something similar. How I can do?
All this in... (7 Replies)
I was wondering if anyone could provide some assistance. I trying to run an expect script within bash and get the results of a variable called RESULT. I Have tried a few things but none of them have worked. I know that the child process (the expect script) in this instance cannot set a variable... (6 Replies)
I'm having trouble with some automated sftp pulls. I'm using expect inside bash scripts and spawning SFTP. Some times the expect seems bog down. I have tried to put sleeps in my code to give everything time to work before I move on to next step but I till continue to get issues. For example when... (2 Replies)
I'm trying to think of a way to compare two boxes and make sure their files will be the same. There may be extra files on one side and some on the other.
I also need to make sure the file content is identical.
So far I've gotten this to create a file
find /directorypath/ -type f -name... (3 Replies)
Dear all
Hi
I want use expect in bash so that we can not use these with each other
/bin/bash. With. /usr/bin/expect
How can use these with on script or how can call a script from other script
#!/bin/bash
clear
echo "================================== "
echo "Enter your Esxi IP"... (3 Replies)
Hey there :)
I have a Bash Script and I'm trying to update Roundcube, but theres a user interactive line like:
bin/installto.sh /var/www/mail/rc
Upgrading from 1.1.3. Do you want to continue? (y/N)
I'm trying to avoid this user interaction like this:
cd roundcubemail-1.2.1 >/dev/null... (5 Replies)
Hello,
First of all I want to apologize because i'm not a admin or coder and maybe all my efforts to write only this small script in my life would need one week full time reading man pages and forums but...
I don't have the money to offer me to get this time and the script I want to do seems... (5 Replies)
im very happy to back for this forum
I have servers with alias of double dns extentions:
sample:
servera.test.com
servera.test1.com
serverb.test.com
serverb.test1.com
I need to login to that severs and executing the set of commands
if test.com failed then try to login via... (0 Replies)