Thanks for your help as it turns out the file was not exacutable and the path is not exported. I have made it executable and moved to /usr/bin where expect is and its working now. THANKS !!!! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andreas Rippl" <a.rippl@gmx.net> To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Cc: <hjnash@comcast.net> Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2005 9:11 AM Subject: Re: autoexpect