[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I'm trying to get a script that will enter/change a user's password
The 'passwd' command 'blocks'; it does not 'fork'. Another way
of saying this is that only one 'passwd' command may run at
any one time in a system for obvious reason. A second, third,
etc, will sleep and timeout when the 'passwd', that a process is
waiting on has not completed.
I have the following 'Expect' script:
~_________ doPass ________________________
/
#!/usr/bin/expect -f
# Try inserting here:
pidof passwd >/dev/null
RETVAL=$?
if [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ]; then
echo "Try again later, another passwd process is running!"
sleep 2
else
set username [lindex $argv 0]
set password [lindex $argv 1]
spawn passwd $username
expect "New password: "
send "$password\r"
expect "Retype new password: "
send "$password\r"
send "exit\r"
expect eof
fi
\_________________________________________
This works fine the first time, then times out when running consecutive times.
Does anyone know what is happening and why it times out if I run it twice or 3
times in a row?
any help would be appreciated,
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