Expect script error: spawn not found

[StoneCold316]

Hi Everyone,

I am working on an expect script to login into a server and copy few wars across the folders. But when i execute it I am getting the following error:

[exec] loginServer.sh: spawn: not found.
[exec] loginServer.sh: expect: 0403-006 Execute permission denied.
[exec] send: -- unknown

The first line is : #!/usr/bin/expect -f

Is this anything to do with server setting or configuration that doesn't allow spawn??

Please any help would be appreciated!!

Thanks,
Sandy

[Rubberman]

"copy a few wars"? Sorry, doesn't compute. Do you mean the postfix spawn command? It is not a system command, but a part of the postfix system, which is usually found as /usr/sbin/postfix.

[StoneCold316]

Thanks for the reply Rubberman.

Sorry I meant copy a war from one server to another using scp command which needs password entering.

Anyways, One more silly doubt. If i place expect binary file to some other place say, /a/b/c/expect and give the same path in the first line of the expect script. Will it be needed for us to move the postfix file too..

The issue is: in the server (AIX server) that i want to execute this script, there was no expect file. So i placed the file from my local to one of the bin folder and gave this path in the script. If i copy the postfix file to this location will this work.

I am not that experienced with Unix/Linux environment. Please help me out here.

Thanks,
Sandy

[Rubberman]

Sometimes this sort of problem is due to your PATH environment not being set properly, to include the directory where postfix et al are to be found.