Ok this is really probably an easy one to solve but I am struggling. I am writing a script that will spawn a few terminal sessions and will telnet to a server. Now to do that I was going to use the Except, spawn, send, etc commands. I have installed the Except RPM (I am using redhat 7.2 kernel 2.4.7-10). I have included the header in the script #! /usr/bin/except. When I try to run the script it just out puts the line of code "spawn telnet." But if I have any shell commands such as echo or clear, it reports and error (commands not found). When I use the #! /bin/sh as the header it reports that spawn cannot be found. If anyone can suggest anything please do.
Thanking you in advance

I think you misspelled expect . I had kinda same issue. was giving me errors for unknows problem. I just reinstalled expect of different version and now it workd great. I hope it helps you

Is expect working from the command line?

If you make the current directory /usr/bin/expect (I'm assuming this is where you installed expect) and type in "./expect" at the prompt does the prompt change to "expect1.1>"?

Do you have TCL installed?

Try this:

which expect

This should find expect, if it's in you $PATH .

For the sake of portability, follow the man pages instructions:

Put this as the first lines of your script:

#!/bin/sh
# \
exec expect "$0" "$@"

Your script goes here.

# EOF

regards,

vfs.