Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 14:11:47 +1000 From: Chris Aitken <chris@ideal.net.au> To: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: rc.d running a perl script/expect Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20011011133734.03a52948@mail.ideal.net.au> In-Reply-To: <20011010201400.R387@blossom.cjclark.org> References: <KPEMLBLEMPMHGLJOCDEGEEIGCJAA.scott@gerhardt-it.com> <KPEMLBLEMPMHGLJOCDEGEEIGCJAA.scott@gerhardt-it.com>
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Hi all,
I have come across a weird one that I just cannot explain....... I have a
perl script that gets launched from rc.d that simply runs 24x7 and does the
following
* Loop starts
* uses DBI to connect to a database
* queries the database and gets 2 variables
* launches an expect script with 2 arguments (the 2 variables above)
* returns to the perl script
* updates the database
* Loops back to start
Problem is.... If I run the script as root from console, or as a user
su'ed, then it works perfectly.......
if I reboot the machine and let the script run from the .sh file in the
rc.d directory, expect seems to ignore any arguments after the script name....
/usr/local/bin/expect /location/to/script.exp Argument1 Argument2
whats happening is that the expect script isnt being issued the arguments,
and the expect script is barfing (because of inbuilt error checking). Yet
when I run it from root@console or an su'ed user, it spawns the expect
script with arguments in place.
Now I know that the perl script is accessing the database properly because
its updating the database properly, so im assuming the error is with the
expect script not accepting the arguments.
Can anyone shed some light on this or point me in the right direction as to
why this would be happening as a system service, and works fine otherwise.
Thanks
Chris
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