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# 1  
Old 12-19-2008
Expect not working
Im trying to write a script that will change user to cyrus then reconstruct mailbox for the user defined in the parsed argument. If i was loggin in to terminal to do this manually for wendys mailbox i would do this
Code:
sudo su cyrus
/usr/bin/cyrus/bin/reconstruct -r user/wendy

That would reconstruct her mailboxes. Now i tried to do in a script using expect which i have never tried before heres my code
Code:
#! /usr/bin/expect -f

if [ ! $1 ]
then
    echo "You must enter a user name!";
    echo "Aborting!!";
    exit 1;
fi



echo "changing to user cyrus"

spawn "su cyrus"
expect "#"
send "/usr/bin/cyrus/bin/reconstruct -r user/$1"

echo "reconstructed mailbox" $1
echo "finished"
exit 1;

However this gives me the following errors

Quote:
changing to user cyrus
test.sh: line 14: spawn: command not found
couldn't read file "#": no such file or directory
test.sh: line 16: send: command not found
reconstructed mailbox wendysayers
finished
why is spawn not found? isnt it a unix command or something? What shall i do next?
# 2  
Old 12-19-2008
How did you execute your script?
# 3  
Old 12-19-2008
Code:
sudo sh test.sh wendy

# 4  
Old 12-19-2008
i found out that i should be calling the script with expect

heres the new code.
Code:
! /usr/bin/expect -f
set username [lindex $argv 0]

spawn su timgolding
expect "Password:"
send "secret\r"

expect "timgolding$"
send "sudo su cyrus\r"

expect "Password:"
send "secret\r"

expect "cyrus$"
send "/usr/bin/cyrus/bin/reconstruct -r user/$username\r"

expect eof

i save the script to /home/scripts/reconstruct_mailbox.sh
to call the script and refconstruct wendys mailbox i call

Code:
expect /home/scripts/reconstruct_mailbox.sh wendy


and it works Smilie
# 5  
Old 12-19-2008
Have you tried..?
Code:
 su cyrus -c /usr/bin/cyrus/bin/reconstruct -r user/<username>

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