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# 1  
Old 01-11-2011
Expect debug output
Hi!

I want to start OO in headless mode via expect -

the oo command would be

Code:
su - root -c "/usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice -headless -nofirststartwizard -norestore -nolockcheck -nocrashreport -nodefault -accept='socket,host=0.0.0.0,port=8100;urp;StarOffice.Service'"

and the expect script I do use so far is:


Code:
#!/usr/bin/expect -d
set password superGeHeim
set timeout -1
spawn su - root -c "/usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice -headless -nofirststartwizard -norestore -nolockcheck -nocrashreport -nodefault -accept='socket,host=0.0.0.0,port=8100;urp;StarOffice.Service'"
match_max 100000
expect "*?asswor?:*"
send -- "$password\r"
send -- "\r"
expect eof

which works with simple commands like kate. However oo is not starting at all, giving no errors or anything. expect -d doesnt help, no errors are provided.

The expect output is telling me it sets the password and returns normally.
I wonder what I can do to get any errors provided by soffice during startup, or what I might do different here to get this sorted?

Thank you in advance,

br

andreas
# 2  
Old 01-11-2011
We run ooffice headless. We created an init script that uses sudo (with NOPASSWD) to become the user to run it as.
Code:
/usr/bin/sudo -b -H -i -u someuser $soffice_BIN -headless -accept='socket,port=8100;urp;' &

# 3  
Old 01-12-2011
Hi,

Thanks for the hint.. unfortunately the average user of my app is a noob and will most likely not be able to configure sudoers properly.. because if he could do that, he could add the startup script to etc/init.de anyways. So I am looking for a way to let the user specify an account and passwort, and do the expect thing Smilie
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