I am struggling with executing command via telnet/expect.
set send_slow {500 .5}
send -s -- "show slot *\r"
expect {
".*>" {
send -s -- "y\r"
exp_continue
}
".*#\s"
}
send -s "who\r"
expect "# "
send -s "alm\r"
expect "# "
send -s -- "logout\r"
show slot command prints card in slots. Due to paging user is asked to continue. After execution that a prompt NODE2-1# is shown and I want to execute command who.
What I get is:
2/36 PF Empty Up Down UEQ
2/37 FAN FAN Up Up
2/38 Empty Empty Down Down UAS UEQ
2/39 Empty Empty Down Down UAS UEQ
25/1 SFD40 SFD40 Up Up
Node2-1#<br> Node2-1# who
Session Username Date Terminal
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
116 (cli tel) * admin May 29 06:57 XX.X.XX.XX
Node2-1# almlogout
Alarm Status: Critical-3 Major-0 Minor-0
As you can see, first prompt is left empty and in second one there is a command. It takes few seconds to execute it.
Moreover, below one can see, that in prompt there is pasted command almlogout. These two are separate commands -> alm and logout. However, they are pasted together.
Question is - how to execute command in prompt without that delay, and second - how to separate two commands
By default, expect statement's pattern is in glob style so ".*>" should be -re ".*>" and ".*#\s" should be -re ".*#\\s" or -re {.*#\s} ("\s" is actually "s").
And since .* can match nothing, so -re {.*>} is the same as -re {>} and -re {.*#\s} the same as -re {#\s}.
I'm using 2 scripts. A bash and an expect script. the bash is just a for loop with a set of IPs. If I can, I would use the expect script to create a variable near the beginning, right after login. It would look for the hostname, assign it to a variable, then use that variable as the 'match' after show tech output.
Also, the IPs are example. I'm not actually expecting (no pun intended) this to operate on public DNS IPs. Ok ok, you got me, I put this disclaimer here just so I could 'not' make that pun.
#!/bin/bash
arrayHOST+=( '8.8.8.8' '8.8.4.4' '4.2.2.2' '4.2.2.1' )
username="user1"; password="pass1"
for host in ${arrayHOST[#]}; do
./expect.sh $host $username $password >> $host.txt
done
and the expect script:
#!/usr/bin/expect -f
#log_user 0
set timeout -1
set varIP1 [lindex $argv 0]
set varUSER [lindex $argv 1]
set varPASS [lindex $argv 2]
spawn telnet $varIP1
expect "Username:"
send "$varUSER\r"
expect "Password:"
send "$varPASS\n"
expect "#"
send "term leng 0\r"
expect "#"
send "term wid 0\r"
expect "#"
send "show tech\r"
expect "#"
puts $expect_out(buffer);
Problem is that there are '#' characters that match before the command finishes so I don't get to capture the whole thing. Points to consider:
The end of the output from 'show tech' isn't the same on every device in the IP list unless you consider the hostname of the device itself.
Yes, I know I can "show tech | redirect tftp:// etc". This wont help me achieve the desired results.
I've tried 'not expecting anything' but this causes expect to not capture anything. (sending show tech without following with a new line containing expect "#" or anything else)
spawn telnet 8.8.8.8
Trying 8.8.8.8...
Connected to 8.8.8.8.
Escape character is '^]'.
User Access Verification
Username: benjamin
Password:
rowtar#term leng 0
rowtar#term wid 0
rowtar#term wid 0
rowtar#
I really like the idea of trying to regex/match an expect variable to the output that matches the hostname of the device but I don't how to do that. In my example, I would try to match "rowtar#" but without per-defining that ahead of time or before the expect script is called.
The solution was looking me right in the face.
Simply:
expect -re #$
matching any line ending with #
I still encourage someone to help/answer with hostname matching to a variable
I am switching DNS servers and I'd like to write a short ruby script that runs every 10s and triggers a local Mac OS X system notification as soon as my website resolves to a different IP.
Using terminal-notifier sending a system notification is as easy as this
terminal-notifier -message "DNS Changed"
I'd like to trigger it as soon as the output of
ping -i 10 mywebsite.com
... changes or simply does not contain a defined IP string anymore.
> 64 bytes from 12.34.56.789: icmp_seq=33 ttl=41 time=241.564 ms
in this case "12.34.56.789".
How do I monitor the change of the output string of the ping -i 10 mywebsite.com and call the notification function once a change has been detected?
I thought this might be a nice practice while waiting for the DNS to be updated.
Try this:
IP = "12.34.56.789"
p = IO.popen("ping -i 10 mywebsite.com")
p.each_line do |l|
if(! l =~ /from #{IP}/) #The IP has changed
system("terminal-notifier -message \"DNS Changed\"")
end
end
I'm sending requests to a third-party API. It says I must send an HTTP PUT to http://example.com/project?id=projectId
I tried doing this with PHP curl, but I'm not getting a response from the server. Maybe something is wrong with my code because I've never used PUT before. Is there a way for me to execute an HTTP PUT from bash command line? If so, what is the command?
With curl it would be something like
curl --request PUT --header "Content-Length: 0" http://website.com/project?id=1
but like Mattias said you'd probably want some data in the body as well so you'd want the content-type and the data as well (plus content-length would be larger)
If you really want to only use bash it actually has some networking support.
echo -e "PUT /project?id=123 HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: website.com\r\n\r\n" > \
/dev/tcp/website.com/80
But I guess you also want to send some data in the body?
Like Mattias suggested, Bash can do the job without further tools. If you want to send data, you have to preset at least "Content-length". With variables "host", "port", "resource" and "data" defined, you can do a HTTP put with
echo -e "PUT /$resource HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: $host:$port\r\nContent-Length: ${#data}\r\n\r\n$data\r\n" > /dev/tcp/$host/$port
I tested this with a Rest API and it workes fine.
I am writing a Bash shell script for Mac that sends an email notification by opening an automator application that sends email out with the default mail account in Mail.app. The automator application also attaches a text file that the script has written to. The problems with this solution are
It is visible in the GUI when sending
It steals focus if Mail is not the current application
It is dependent on Mail.app's account setup being valid in the future
I figure to get around those shortcomings I should send the mail directly from the script by entering SMTP settings, address to send to, etc. directly in the script. The catch is I would like to deploy this script on multiple computers (10.5 and 10.6) without enabling Postfix on the computer. Is it possible to do this in the script so it will run on a base Mac OS X install of 10.5. and 10.6?
Update: I've found the -bs option for Sendmail which seems to be what I need, but I'm at a loss of how to specify settings.
Also, to clarify, the reason I'd like to specify SMTP settings is that mails from localhost on port 25 sent out via Postfix would be blocked by most corporate firewalls, but if I specify the server and an alternate port I won't run into that problem.
Since Mac OS X includes Python, consider using a Python script instead of a Bash script. I haven't tested the sending portion, but it follows the standard example.
Python script
# Settings
SMTP_SERVER = 'mail.myisp.com'
SMTP_PORT = 25
SMTP_USERNAME = 'myusername'
SMTP_PASSWORD = '$uper$ecret'
SMTP_FROM = 'sender#example.com'
SMTP_TO = 'recipient#example.com'
TEXT_FILENAME = '/script/output/my_attachment.txt'
MESSAGE = """This is the message
to be sent to the client.
"""
# Now construct the message
import smtplib, email
from email import encoders
import os
msg = email.MIMEMultipart.MIMEMultipart()
body = email.MIMEText.MIMEText(MESSAGE)
attachment = email.MIMEBase.MIMEBase('text', 'plain')
attachment.set_payload(open(TEXT_FILENAME).read())
attachment.add_header('Content-Disposition', 'attachment', filename=os.path.basename(TEXT_FILENAME))
encoders.encode_base64(attachment)
msg.attach(body)
msg.attach(attachment)
msg.add_header('From', SMTP_FROM)
msg.add_header('To', SMTP_TO)
# Now send the message
mailer = smtplib.SMTP(SMTP_SERVER, SMTP_PORT)
# EDIT: mailer is already connected
# mailer.connect()
mailer.login(SMTP_USERNAME, SMTP_PASSWORD)
mailer.sendmail(SMTP_FROM, [SMTP_TO], msg.as_string())
mailer.close()
I hope this helps.
Actually, "mail" works just as well.
mail -s "subject line" name#address.ext < filename
works perfectly fine, as long as you have SMTP set up on your machine. I think that most Macs do, by default.
If you don't have SMTP, then the only thing you're going to be able to do is go through Mail.app. An ALTERNATIVE way to go through mail.app is via AppleScript. When you tell Mail.app to send mail via AppleScript you can tell it to not pop up any windows... (this does still require Mail.app to be configured).
Introduction to Scripting Mail has a good description of how to work with mail in AppleScript.
There is a program called Sendmail.
You probably don't want to use the -bs command unless you are sending it as raw SMTP like Martin's example. -bs is for running an SMTP server as a deamon. Sendmail will send directly to the receiving mail server (on port 25) unless you override it in the configuration file. You can specify the configuration file by the -C paramter.
In the configuration, you can specify a relay server (any mail server or sendmail running -bs on another machine)
Using a properly configured relay server is good idea because when IT manages mail servers they implement SPF and domain keys. That keeps your mail out of the junk bin.
If port 25 is blocked you are left with two options.
Use the corporate SMTP server.
Run sendmail -bd on a machine outside of
the corporate firewall that listens
on a port other than 25.
I believe you can add configuration parameters on the command line. What you want is the SMART_HOST option. So call Sendmail like sendmail -OSMART_HOST=nameofhost.com.
Probably the only way you could do this, while keeping the program self-sufficient, is if you have direct access to an SMTP server from the clients.
If you do have direct access to an SMTP server you can use the SMTP example from wikipedia and turn it into something like this:
#!/bin/bash
telnet smtp.example.org 25 <<_EOF
HELO relay.example.org
MAIL FROM:<joe#example.org>
RCPT TO:<jane#example.org>
DATA
From: Joe <joe#example.org>
To: Jane <jane#example.org>
Subject: Hello
Hello, world!
.
QUIT
_EOF
To handle errors I would redirect the output from telnet to a file and then grep that for a "success message" later. I am not sure what format the message should be, but I see something like "250 2.0.0 Ok: queued as D86A226C574" in the output from my SMTP server. This would make me grep for "^250.*queued as".
Send mail from Bash with one line:
echo "your mail body" | mail -s "your subject" yourmail#yourdomain.com -a "From: sender#senderdomain.com"
sendEmail is a script that you can use to send email from the command line using more complicated settings, including connecting to a remote smtp server:
http://caspian.dotconf.net/menu/Software/SendEmail/
On OSX it is easily installable via macports:
http://sendemail.darwinports.com/
Below is the help page for the command, take note of the -s, -xu, -xp flags:
Synopsis: sendEmail -f ADDRESS [options]
Required:
-f ADDRESS from (sender) email address
* At least one recipient required via -t, -cc, or -bcc
* Message body required via -m, STDIN, or -o message-file=FILE
Common:
-t ADDRESS [ADDR ...] to email address(es)
-u SUBJECT message subject
-m MESSAGE message body
-s SERVER[:PORT] smtp mail relay, default is localhost:25
Optional:
-a FILE [FILE ...] file attachment(s)
-cc ADDRESS [ADDR ...] cc email address(es)
-bcc ADDRESS [ADDR ...] bcc email address(es)
Paranormal:
-xu USERNAME authentication user (for SMTP authentication)
-xp PASSWORD authentication password (for SMTP authentication)
-l LOGFILE log to the specified file
-v verbosity, use multiple times for greater effect
-q be quiet (no stdout output)
-o NAME=VALUE see extended help topic "misc" for details
Help:
--help TOPIC The following extended help topics are available:
addressing explain addressing and related options
message explain message body input and related options
misc explain -xu, -xp, and others
networking explain -s, etc
output explain logging and other output options
I whipped this up for the challenge. If you remove the call to 'dig' to obtain the mail relay, it is a 100% native Bash script.
#!/bin/bash
MAIL_FROM="sfinktah#bash.spamtrak.org"
RCPT_TO="sfinktah#bash.spamtrak.org"
MESSAGE=message.txt
SMTP_PORT=25
SMTP_DOMAIN=${RCPT_TO##*#}
index=1
while read PRIORITY RELAY
do
RELAY[$index]=$RELAY
((index++))
done < <( dig +short MX $SMTP_DOMAIN )
RELAY_COUNT=${#RELAY[#]}
SMTP_COMMANDS=( "HELO $HOSTNAME" "MAIL FROM: <$MAIL_FROM>" "RCPT TO: <$RCPT_TO>" "DATA" "." "QUIT" )
SMTP_REPLY=([25]=OK [50]=FAIL [51]=FAIL [52]=FAIL [53]=FAIL [54]=FAIL [55]=FAIL [45]=WAIT [35]=DATA [22]=SENT)
for (( i = 1 ; i < RELAY_COUNT ; i++ ))
do
SMTP_HOST="${RELAY[$i]}"
echo "Trying relay [$i]: $SMTP_HOST..."
exec 5<>/dev/tcp/$SMTP_HOST/$SMTP_PORT
read HELO <&5
echo GOT: $HELO
for COMMAND_ORDER in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
do
OUT=${SMTP_COMMANDS[COMMAND_ORDER]}
echo SENDING: $OUT
echo -e "$OUT\r" >&5
read -r REPLY <&5
echo REPLY: $REPLY
# CODE=($REPLY)
CODE=${REPLY:0:2}
ACTION=${SMTP_REPLY[CODE]}
case $ACTION in
WAIT ) echo Temporarily Fail
break
;;
FAIL ) echo Failed
break
;;
OK ) ;;
SENT ) exit 0
;;
DATA ) echo Sending Message: $MESSAGE
cat $MESSAGE >&5
echo -e "\r" >&5
;;
* ) echo Unknown SMTP code $CODE
exit 2
esac
done
done
Here is a simple Ruby script to do this. Ruby ships on the Mac OS X versions you mentioned.
Replace all the bits marked 'replace'. If it fails, it returns a non-zero exit code and a Ruby back trace.
require 'net/smtp'
SMTPHOST = 'replace.yoursmtpserver.example.com'
FROM = '"Your Email" <youremail#replace.example.com>'
def send(to, subject, message)
body = <<EOF
From: #{FROM}
To: #{to}
Subject: #{subject}
#{message}
EOF
Net::SMTP.start(SMTPHOST) do |smtp|
smtp.send_message body, FROM, to
end
end
send('someemail#replace.example.com', 'testing', 'This is a message!')
You can embed this in a Bash script like so:
ruby << EOF
... script here ...
EOF
For some other ways to send Ruby emails, see Stack Overflow question How do I send mail from a Ruby program?.
You can use other languages that ship with Mac OS X as well:
How do I send email with Perl?
Sending HTML email using Python
1) Why not configure postfix to handle outbound mail only and relay it via a mail gateway? Its biggest advantage is that it is already installed on OS X clients.
2) Install and configure one of the lightweight MTAs that handle only outbound mail, like nullmailer or ssmtp (available via MacPorts).
In both cases use mailx(1) (or mutt if you want to get fancy) to send the mails from a shell script.
There are several questions on Server Fault that go into the details.
sendmail and even postfix may be too big to install if all you want to do is to send a few emails from your scripts.
If you have a Gmail account for example, you can use Google's servers to send email using SMTP. If you don't want to use gGoogle's server, as long as you have access to some SMTP server, it should work.
A very lightweight program that makes it easy to do so is msmtp. They have examples of configuration files in their documentation.
The easiest way to do it would be to set up a system-wide default:
account default
host smtp.gmail.com
from john.doe#gmail.com
user john.doe#gmail.com
password XXX
port 587
msmtp should be very easy to install. In fact, there is a port for it, so it could be as easy as port install msmtp.
After installing and configuring msmtp, you can send email to john.doe#gmail.com using:
mail -s <subject> john.doe#gmail.com <<EOF
<mail text, as many lines as you want. Shell variables will be expanded>.
EOF
You can put the above in a script. See man mail for details.
Here's a modified shells script snip I've used on various UNIX systems...
(echo "${MESSAGE}" | ${uuencode} ${ATTACHMENT}$basename ${ATTACHMENT}) | ${mailx} -s "${SUBJECT}" "${TO_LIST}"
uuencode and mailx are set to the executables. The other variables are from user input parsed using getopts.
This does work but I have to admit more often than not I use a simple Java program to send console emails.
Try mtcmail. Its a fairly complete email sender, completely standalone.