If it waits for the full 30 minutes, it means that expect does not see the string you are waiting for.
You are writing
which means that you are waiting for the string "(.*)## $" to appear somewhere. I don't think this is what you want to achieve.
You can use exact, if you know the exact sequence of characters. In your case, it seems to me more natural do do an anchored regular expression matching, to cope for variations in, say, whitespace, for example
Please see it only as a suggestion to start with. I don't know what's in your output in general, and you have to judge by yourself, how to write the regexp so that you don't accidentally catch a line in your logs which looks the same.
Hello to all...this is my first post (so please go easy). :)
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Hi All,
I am writing a script(Auto_Installation.sh) which is calling one another script (./update_manager /spare/install/HO7/PME_Response_file.txt)
Now the issue is result of (./update_manager /spare/install/HO7/PME_Response_file.txt) script is
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Hi,
I have two questions,first of all is where can I collect more error logs(the log under /var/log/messages), also give the corresponding explain is grateful.The second one is the log under various versions(such as red hat,suse,etc) is the same or not.
Thanks for answers. (1 Reply)
Hi Gurus
I need to collect the logs between two time stamp... The log files 12 hours format (ex- Nov 14, 2013 12:10:16 AM UTC) I tried the below commands but no luck.
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Appreciate help for the below issue.
Im using below code.....I dont want to attach the logs when I ran the perl twice...I just want to take backup with today date and generate new logs...What I need to do for the below scirpt..............
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