Conditional Statement in Expect script

[rubbersoul69]

Hi All,

I'm writing an expect script for an installation of some software on a Linux box. Where I'm getting stuck is in the beginning when I'm looking for the presence of a file. If it's there I want to rename it to acme.conf.1, so that when the software installs it can touch acme.conf.

Hope someone can help here.....

#!/usr/local/bin/expect

set authFile "/etc/acme.conf"

if {![file exists $authFile]} { ;# Does file not exist
set
Need say do nothing here
else
send "/etc/psynch.conf" "/etc/psynch.conf1"
}

#connect to system
spawn ssh root@10.10.42.27\r
#modify line below if you have already added system fingerprint to known hosts.
expect "Please type 'yes' or 'no':"
send yes\r
expect "password: "
send 5555555\r
expect "linux-zwny:~ #"


That's the basis of it...you can see where im stuck at the top.

 

[Annihilannic]

Is the file on the remote or local system? Are "acme" and "psynch" referring to the same file?

Annihilannic.

 

[rubbersoul69]

OK sorry....

forget everything I put above.

What I need is a simple loop that looks for a file name acme.conf under /etc

When it finds it I just want it to append a number say acme.conf.1

If it's run again it should copy the file again and call it acme.conf.2

If it doesn't find it the script ends....that's it. Sorry guys...Newb here


thxs

 

[Annihilannic]

I see... but my question still stands... is /etc/acme.conf on the local system, or the system you are connecting to via ssh?

Annihilannic.

 

[rubbersoul69]

It would reside on a remote system that I'd be connecting too.

 

[rubbersoul69]

Was thinking something like this....but I'm NO script guy at all and this doesn't work:

#!/bin/bash

# test to see if acme.conf exists

i=0

if [ -e "/etc/acme.conf" ];

then

echo "you have a conf file already. I'm gonna back it up."

mv "/etc/acme.conf" "/etc/acme.conf"+ i

i=0+1

else
echo "you have no conf file. Let me install the listner."
fi

 

[Annihilannic]

This should do it. You shouldn't need expect for this task; I've added the -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no SSH option so that it shouldn't prompt you to type "yes".

#!/bin/bash

ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no root@10.10.42.27 '
    if [[ -e "/etc/acme.conf" ]]
    then
        echo "You have a conf file already. I am gonna back it up."
        i=1
        until [[ ! -e "/etc/acme.conf.$i" ]] ; do ((i=i+1)) ; done
        mv "/etc/acme.conf" "/etc/acme.conf.$i"
    else
        echo "You have no conf file. Let me install the listener."
    fi 
'

Notice that I changed the "I'm" to "I am" since the apostrophe would have prematurely terminated the script supplied to ssh.

Annihilannic.