expect and shell: spawn command not found

[carlottams]

Help…
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.

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]

Why do you expect your web browser to act like a terminal? The reason why it worked from the command line is that you are on a terminal, or terminal emulator such as xterm, kterminal, or whatever. You need to research how to access the stdin/sdtout/stderr streams from a spawned shell command within a web browser, because the stdout is what you need to intercept and relay to the user, the stdin is what you need to pipe their input (userid/password) to, and stderr is what you need to relay for errors spawned by the shell and processes it runs.

[carlottams]

Thank you, Rubberman, for you comments.
I think we are on the same page in general. One of the things I pointed out is that the expect script is logging in but not returning a prompt for "username". What I think is happening is the #!/bin/sh is responding to the expect being performed in expect program.

I think the fix is a minute quick one that I am not seeing. Do you have a more "specific" suggestion other than "research how to access the stdin/sdtout/stderr streams from a spawned shell command".

[Rubberman]

FIrst a question. Are you using CGI scripts to do this? Or are you using something like JSP or ASP scripting?