DP post-exec script times out

[Dave Chamberlin]

Greetings. I believe this is a script issue - not data protector issue. I have a post exec script (ksh) I have used for a few years that now has to run remotely rather than locally (on the cell manager). The script runs 5 other scripts. All the scripts start what they are supposed to - but DP waits for 30 minutes and reports failure (due to timeout in the script). The last 3 lines of the main script are below. The two emails are sent but it sits there for 30 minutes - then times out. Any ideas on finding out what the hangup is? Could one of the child scripts cause the issue? How could I find out which one?

echo "$subject" | /usr/bin/mailx -s "PROD BACKUP IS COMPLETE" <emailaddress>
echo "$subject" | /usr/bin/mailx -s "PROD BACKUP IS COMPLETE" <emailaddress>
exit 0

[Dennis Handly]

>All the scripts start what they are supposed to

So you know you got to the last mailx?  (Any reason you don't use mailx with both addresses?)

Are you starting any background processes (with &)?

I suppose you could use tusc to check and see what ksh is waiting for.

>post exec script

Are you redirecting stdin to /dev/null?

[Dave Chamberlin]

there are only four scripts - the 2nd,3rd, and 4th are run with &.  These are running on itanium (hpux 11.31). One strange thing - when I run the same script on a PA-RISC test system (also hpux 11.31) it completes (with a DP test backup).

[Dave Chamberlin]

I di notice that the inet  process was still running from the backup, and the log file did not exist. I created the file and one of the child processes was still sending output. We think the script that may still be sending output is:

su - clr -c "/u12/software/jboss/jboss-4.0.1sp1/bin/run_jboss.sh >/dev/null 2>&1"

Is there another way to have this run without returning output to the shell?

thanks

[Dennis Handly]

>Is there another way to have this run without returning output to the shell?

There's nohup(1).

[Dave Chamberlin]

the script that might be hanging does a nohup in it:

nohup java $VM_ARGS -classpath $CP com.clearorbit.rfuiServer.Engine -telnet $PORT -admin $ADMI N_PORT -program $PROGRAM $RFUI_ARGS 1>/home/clr/dtel.log &

[Dennis Handly · Accepted solution]

>the script that might be hanging does a nohup in it:

In it or to invoke it?

Also, why not redirect stderr too?  2>&1

You may want to redirect stdin too: < /dev/null

[Dave Chamberlin]

Doing the >/dev/null >2>&1   in the postexec script has fixed the problem. thanks

[Dennis Handly]

> fixed the problem. thanks

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