Expect script does not work under crontab

Question

I have an expect script which I need to run every 3 mins on my management node to collect tx/rx values for each port attached to DCX Brocade SAN Switch usin

Answer 1

Jobs run by cron are not considered login shells, and thus don't source your .bashrc, .bash_profile, etc.

If you want that behavior, you need to add it explicitly to the crontab entry like so:

$ crontab -l
0 13 * * * bash -c '. .bash_profile; etc ...'
$