Paul Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ever since hamm, expect has been giving me serious trouble. It won't > run cleanly when started from cron. This means that a lot of my > expects scripts are broken. I use expect extensively for system > maintanance and accounting (make sure servers run, upload websites and > databases, etc)
I've had this problem too. I've been working around it by allocating a high-numbered tty on the console and redirection descriptors 0, 1 and 2 to that tty. [I tried doing a bug report on it a year or so ago, and even got a response from Don Libes. Of course, that was for the use of expect's "interact" command, but basically he was saying that the behavior I was describing was appropriate (after a rather minor change specifically to support linux). I kinda gave up on the bug-reporting side of things at that point, as I just needed to get my stuff working.] -- Raul