I've got an expect script that is run through cron everynight that is supposed to secure copy a few files from a different server as well as do a few other things. I can't use ssh-agent because I have extremely limited access to the server I need to copy from. The problem is when I run the script through cron, it executes scp but never winds up copying the files. All the paths I have are absolute paths and I've created a wrapper to set the environment variables for LD_LIBRARY_PATH and PATH under cron. This script works fine when run from the command line. Any ideas? Expect script: spawn scp IPADDRESS:/common/file.log /home/filecopy.log expect "(yes/no)?" send "yes\r" expect "password:" send "******\r" interact Wrapper: #!/bin/bash LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/src/tcl8.3.2/unix/ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH PATH=:/usr/sbin:/opt/openssh/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/apps/RCS:/usr/ccs/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/ucb:/etc:.:/usr/ local/bin:/apps/RCS export PATH /home/thescript.exp

Try turning on expect debugging to see the output exp_internal 1 Most likely it is a path and environment problem if the script runs interactively but not from cron.