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Re: Running expect script under cron
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Ribbrock \(Design/DEG\))
Tue Oct 20 05:05:58 1998
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 10:06:05 +0100
From: "Thomas Ribbrock \(Design/DEG\)" <argathin@iname.com>
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In-Reply-To: <D1DC9C040E12D1118B680060081459491F90BB@CAJUN-EXC>; from Mike A. Lewis, CNE on Mon, Oct 19, 1998 at 11:41:43AM -0700
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Mike A. Lewis, CNE writes:
>
> I guess I wasn't clear in that my script is a separate file called from
> cron. Sorry.
According to your original mail, I understood that you were trying to use
expect instead of a shell (hence the line #!/.../expect, right?) via cron.
My suggestion was more like this:
crontab:
12 12 12 12 12 /<PATH_TO_YOUR_SHELLSCRIPT>
shell script:
#!/bin/sh
expect <CORRECT_SYNTAX_TO_CALL_EXPECT_SCRIPT_FILE>
As you stated in your mail, cron doesn't seem to support the #! sysntax
(I've never tested that, so I take your word for it), in which case I'd
expect that an "ordinary" sh shell is running. I could be wrong on this, so
if anybody knows more details I'd be glad to hear them.
Regards,
Thomas
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