When I try adding -qBC and running it as a regular bash script, I get
the following error:

Permission denied (publickey,password,keyboard-interactive).

Thanks again,

Brad

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> From: Eric R. <rossiter@discoverynet.com>
> To: Brad Crotchett <brad@ispn.net>
> Cc: kclug@kclug.org
> Subject: Re: SCP script
> Date: 03 Dec 2002 16:31:10 -0600
> 
> Brad Crotchett wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I am trying to write a script that will run under cron and scp a file
> > from one server to another at night.  I can run this command manually
> > just fine and it works:
> > 
> > 	scp root@server1:/path_to_file /path_to_file_on_server2
> > 
> > But when I put it in an expect script, it looks like it is launching
> > scp, but it never prompts for a password and just hangs there.  Here is
> > the expect script:
> > 
> > send " scp root@server1:/path_to_file /path_to_file_on_server2r"
> > expect "root@server1's password:"
> > send "passwordr"
> > 
> > Am I missing something?  Any help is appreciated.
> > 
> > Brad
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
> Hi Brad,
> 
> Try adding -qBC to your scp command.  (scp -qBC ... ) will disable 
> prompting for passwords.
> 
> You're utilizing expect simply to feed scp the required password right?
> 
> The above works nightly for me, scp's backed up files accross town 
> running straight out of a bash script fired from cron.  Doesn't prompt 
> for password, and resolves the "no controlling tty" issue.
> 
> HTH,
> E
> 
> 
> 
>