topic Re: starting a script in Operating System - HP-UX

starting a script

Maciej Szewczykowski — Thu, 10 Apr 2003 10:48:05 GMT

hi all,
i'd like to ask for help in the following matter:
i have a script that contains several standard commands. among them there is a command that is supposed to start another script - it is just a name of the script that is to be initialized, actually. but it doesn't work this way.
how to make it work?

Re: starting a script

Pete Randall — Thu, 10 Apr 2003 10:51:12 GMT

Have you used the full path name to the second script?

Pete

Re: starting a script

melvyn burnard — Thu, 10 Apr 2003 10:51:37 GMT

Do you have the PATH variable set in ht script to allow the command to be "reached"? ohterwise, are you specifiying ht full pathname of the script?

Re: starting a script

T G Manikandan — Thu, 10 Apr 2003 10:54:49 GMT

Make sure

1.Execute permissions of the script

2.Provide the full path of the script.

Thanks

Re: starting a script

Maciej Szewczykowski — Thu, 10 Apr 2003 11:00:16 GMT

of course, i've given the full path and set permission properly - still nothing.

Re: starting a script

Yogeeraj_1 — Thu, 10 Apr 2003 11:04:50 GMT

hi,

can you post the scripts or part of them?

caller and callee

You may wish to trace it using "echo" messages at specific parts in the code.

thanks
Yogeeraj

Re: starting a script

Pete Randall — Thu, 10 Apr 2003 11:05:45 GMT

Well, of course, given the lack of info provided, we had to eliminate the obvious. Thanks for your patience. Maybe if we could see the script, we'd have more insight.

Pete

Re: starting a script

Maciej Szewczykowski — Thu, 10 Apr 2003 11:10:01 GMT

here goes the script - please take a look at 9th line: here is invoked the script (rem_arch) supposed to be run.

Re: starting a script

melvyn burnard — Thu, 10 Apr 2003 11:15:09 GMT

try adding the line :
set -x
to hte beginning of the script and then watch the output.

Re: starting a script

Pete Randall — Thu, 10 Apr 2003 11:18:17 GMT

I'm not sure what this script is doing:

$ man put
No manual entry for put.
$ man lcd
No manual entry for lcd.
$ man mget
No manual entry for mget.

Maybe some sort of ftp script, I guess? How is it invoked?

Pete

Re: starting a script

Maciej Szewczykowski — Thu, 10 Apr 2003 11:19:17 GMT

what does parameter -x cause?

Re: starting a script

Dario_1 — Thu, 10 Apr 2003 11:21:07 GMT

Try running the script in debug mode:

sh -x scriptname

You will the script executing every command.
DR

Re: starting a script

Maciej Szewczykowski — Thu, 10 Apr 2003 11:23:55 GMT

yes indeed Pete - actually it is an input file for initializing ftp connection
ftp < script
so the commands are carried out by remote host

Re: starting a script

Yogeeraj_1 — Thu, 10 Apr 2003 11:24:26 GMT

hi,

This is a "debugging-tool". After this command is executed, all further commands will be
printed to the terminal before they are executed until a 'set +x'
command is found.

regards
Yogeeraj

Re: starting a script

Pete Randall — Thu, 10 Apr 2003 11:30:42 GMT

Ok, can you tell if the mkdir and the put(s) were successful? The last line removes all the evidence so maybe if you commented it out and then checked to make sure things are as you expect.

Pete

Re: starting a script

Maciej Szewczykowski — Thu, 10 Apr 2003 11:30:48 GMT

thank you all.
in which line of the script command set -x should be placed?

Re: starting a script

Yogeeraj_1 — Thu, 10 Apr 2003 11:34:09 GMT

hi,

if you can't mix ftp commands with shell commands!

this should provide you with some hints:

...
for i in `cat ftp.list`; do
echo "put $i"|ftp serverB
file=`basename $i .txt`
mv $i $FTP_ARCH/
done
...

hth
Yogeeraj

Re: starting a script

Maciej Szewczykowski — Thu, 10 Apr 2003 11:34:29 GMT

yes Pete, all the commands are successful, except the one invoking the script.

Re: starting a script

Yogeeraj_1 — Thu, 10 Apr 2003 11:36:43 GMT

set -x should be place at the position from which you wish start the debugging process.

you stop with a "set +x"

hth
yogeeraj

Re: starting a script

Duncan Edmonstone — Thu, 10 Apr 2003 11:38:40 GMT

You seem to be combining ftp and shell script commands together! You can't do that.

I'm assuming this is the command thats not working:

/usr/local/home/rainbow/archiwum/temp_arch/rem_arch

If this is on the local host (the host where ftp is being run from) then you could just add an exclamation mark at the start to run it in a shell:

!/usr/local/home/rainbow/archiwum/temp_arch/rem_arch

If this command is actually on the remote host ( the one you are ftp'ing to) then there is *no way* to run it from within ftp as it doesn't allow you to run code on the remote end.

HTH

Duncan