How do I use expect with cron?
James Meacham
I've written an expect script that goes to one of my servers, downloads new
files, and does some processing. Problem is, I want to run it from cron, so
that I don't have to do it each day. Yet I get messages from cron that say it
can't get control of the terminal and fails/ Is there any way of fixing, by
say redirecting the terminal output, etc.? Thanks for any help anyon might be
able to offer.
James
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Xavier Santana
I'm also using an expect script launched from cron, and I also got this
problem, but I solved it redirecting the output of the process to
/dev/null. If you are interested on storing the output messages, just
redirect it to a log file.
Xavi
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