On Sun, 2005-05-15 at 14:09, Phusion wrote:
I'm new to writing expect scripts and need some help. The script will
telnet to a host and run some commands. I want the script to ping the
host to see if it's alive first before it telnets into it. Also, I
know the host is pingable meaning it responds to pings. If the host
doesn't respond to a ping I want it to log that to a log file and then
quit. I already know how to telnet to the host, but not sure about the
ping part and writing it to a log file. Could you please reply to this
email with a little example script. Thanks.
Phusion
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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.
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