Mike, I need to this be in an expect script because I will be entering commands after I telnet into the machine. Thanks for the help though.
On 5/22/05, Mike Jeays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2005-05-22 at 20:30, Phusion wrote: > > I need some help with an expect script I'm trying to write. Here's > > what I would like to do. > > > > - Ping the host to see if it's up. > > a. If the host responds to pings telnet into it. > > b. If the host doesn't respond to pings write that to a log file and > > close the expect script properly. > > > > The host does respond to pings. I was thinking if I see a ttl in the > > response packet to assume it's up and telnet into it. Let me know how > > I can do the following with expect. Also, how do I close an expect > > script properly? Thanks. > > _______________________________________________ > > [email protected] mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > > I sent you these examples to a similar request a few days ago, and > didn't get any acknowledgement. Did you not receive it, or is it not > clear, or do you need more help? > > ----------------------------------------------------- > > You can ping a host and test whether it was successful from a shell > script, without needing to use expect. Hope this is useful, as it > doesn't quite answer your question. Note the "-c 1" to tell ping to try > just once. > > ping -c 1 chaucer > rc1=$? > if [ $rc1 -gt 0 ] > then > echo "Chaucer is down" > else > echo "Chaucer is up" > fi > > Here is an example of telnet from expect; a very quick and dirty way to > synchronize a clock on a very old machine. > > #!/usr/local/bin/expect > set timeout 10 > spawn telnet jansen > expect "]" > > send "password1\r" > expect "jansen???" > > send "su\r" > expect "Password:" > > send "rootpassword\r" > expect "#" > > exec date >/tmp/datesync.tmp > exec cat /tmp/datesync.tmp > set newtime [exec cat /tmp/datesync.tmp] > send "date -s \"$newtime\"\r" > expect "#" > > send "exit\r" > expect "jansen???" > > send "exit\r" > expect "host." > > > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
