expect script issue

[carlottams]

Help…
I am having a very similar problem. I have a webpage (php) and I want to call/execute a expect script (via shell if need be). I have tried PHP-exec, passthru, shell_exec, system, escapeshell etc to no avail. (The best results are with passthru). The script is to telnet to a machine (with an argument), login, run a command and exit. When ran from a command line it runs great. I log the event to a file (in expect) and it appears that it connects to the equipment but I never get the “username” prompt to pop up. I also tried putting the expect directly in the .sh file.

In the webpage I call the script---
passthru(`/opt/xampp/htdocs/test/checkadd.sh $quote`);



When ran from command line it looks like this –
/opt/xampp/htdocs/test/checkadd.sh 72.123.36.19
spawn telnet 66.153.111.111
Trying 66.153. 111.111...
Connected to 66.153.111.111.
Escape character is '^]'.
User Access Verification
Username:theusername
password:
MachineName#1#show cable modem 72.123.36.19 verbose
No cable modem with IP address 72.123.36.19
MachineName#1#spawn telnet 66.153.222.222
Trying 66.153.222.222...
Connected to 66.153.222.222.
Escape character is '^]'.
User Access Verification
Username:htcbackup
Password:
MachineName#1#show cable modem 72.123.36.19 verbose
No cable modem with IP address 72.123.36.19



Checkadd.sh
#!/bin/sh
cd /opt/xampp/htdocs/test
/opt/xampp/htdocs/test/checkadd.exp $1




Checkadd.exp
#!/usr/local/bin/expect
#exp_internal 1

set modemmacadd [lindex $argv 0]

set ipadd1 66.153.111.111
set ipadd2 66.153.222.222

log_file -noappend "/opt/xampp/htdocs/test/log.txt"

#66.153.111.111 MachineName#1##############
spawn telnet $ipadd1
expect "Username:"
send "theusername\r"
expect "Password:"
send "thepassword\r"
expect "MachineName#1#"
send "show cable modem $modemmacadd verbose\r"
expect "MachineName#1#"
send "exit\r\n"

#66.153.222.222 MachineName#2##############
spawn telnet $ipadd2
expect "Username:"
send "theusername\r"
expect "Password:"
send "thepassword\r
expect "MachineName#2#"
send "show cable modem $modemmacadd verbose\r"
expect "MachineName#2#"
send "exit\r\n"
…


error.log
sh: spawn: not found
sh: Trying: not found
sh: Connected: not found
sh: Escape: not found
...


Contents of /opt/xampp/htdocs/test/log.txt
Trying 66.153.111.111...
Connected to 66.153.111.111.
Escape character is '^]'.
theusername
thepassword
show cable modem 72.123.36.19 verbose
Trying 66.153.222.222...
Connected to 66.153.222.222.
Escape character is '^]'.
theusername
thepassword
show cable modem 72.123.36.19 verbose
Trying 66.153.333.333...

[Rubberman]

You have made multiple postings with the same question, effectively. Please don't do that. I answered in your other one. Thanks.