Re: expect - sometimes it runs sometimes it doesn't....

From: Diego Kesselman <diegokesselman@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 09/07/2016 04:14 PM
Subject: Re: expect - sometimes it runs sometimes it doesn't....
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It' s ftp and sftp

El 7 sept. 2016 4:03 PM, "Kevin Adler" <kadler@xxxxxxxxxx> escribió:

lftp is completely different than sftp.

sftp is ftp "command emulation" on top of SSH, the other is standard

protocol (unencrypted)


"MIDRANGE-L" <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 09/07/2016
03:25:07 PM:

From: Diego Kesselman <diegokesselman@xxxxxxxxx>
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: 09/07/2016 03:25 PM
Subject: Re: expect - sometimes it runs sometimes it doesn't....
Sent by: "MIDRANGE-L" <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Have you tried using lftp instead of sftp command?

With "lftp" (you can take a look here
http://yips.idevcloud.com/wiki/index.php/pase/opensourcebinaries )

can use user and password , no expect required.


El 07/09/16 a las 15:16, John McKee escribió:

What about sandard error? Anything show up there?

John McKee

On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 2:58 PM, DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

wrote:

I am utilizing expect on several different servers. On one of

need

to sftp two small files up to a service periodically through the

When

I run the shell script in QSH it will run perfectly. Then I run

again

and it does absolutely nothing. It may be many minutes before it

run

again. Signing off and back on doesn't consistently fix it

When

submitted to batch it's the same, it may run and may not.

I am redirecting standard output to a log file (> 'output.log')

when

it runs correctly everything is in it. When it does not run the

is

correctly time stamped but is empty (0 bytes). Even when it's not

logging

it may fail, in that case if it's interactive QSH simply returns

the '$'

prompt.

IBM i 7.1 with reasonably current PTFs and the latest version of

expect

from ScottKlement.com.

Thoughts??


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