Expect Cookbook

Description

This cookbook will install Expect package.

Expect is a tool for automating interactive applications such as telnet, ftp, passwd, fsck, rlogin, tip, etc. Expect really makes this stuff trivial. Expect is also useful for testing these same applications. And by adding Tk, you can also wrap interactive applications in X11 GUIs.
Expect can make easy all sorts of tasks that are prohibitively difficult with anything else. You will find that Expect is an absolutely invaluable tool - using it, you will be able to automate tasks that you've never even thought of before - and you'll be able to do this automation quickly and easily.

Expect requires Tcl (tool command language). This cookbook will provide Tcl package if necessary (currently only Windows platform requires it).

Platforms

• Ubuntu
• CentOS
• RedHat
• Fedora
• Mac OS X
• Windows

Chef

• Chef 12 or later

Attributes

expect::default

Recipes

expect::default

Installs Expect package on node and if the node platform is Windows then the recipe also installs ActiveState ActiveTcl component.

Usage

expect::default

Just include expect in your node's run_list:

{
  "name":"my_node",
  "run_list": [
    "recipe[expect]"
  ]
}

Contributing

• Contribution Guidelines

License and Authors

Authors: Radoslaw Jaros