Hi there

I'm writing a script to update passwords on a Windows 2000 server from a Linux 2.2.19 server with a flat password file.

To debug things, I quickly cobbled up a nasty script as follows:
#!/usr/bin/perl
 
use Expect;
 
        $smbpasswd = Expect->spawn("/usr/local/samba/bin/smbpasswd -r 
+mcmail -U
$username") || die "Could not spawn smbpasswd";
        print $smbpasswd "xela\n";
        print $smbpasswd "alex\n";
        print $smbpasswd "alex\n";

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When I ran this initially, I got an error that Expect was not able to bind to a pty. I re-compiled the kernel with 10 Unix98 Ptys and now get a new error:

"perl: can't resolve symbol 'ptsname'"

any ideas what is wrong here?

Thanks Alex (fastkeys)

In reply to Expect can't resolve symbol by fastkeys

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