topic Re: Script stopped working! in Operating System - Linux

Script stopped working!

Raymond R Walsh Jr — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 12:07:29 GMT

We have a ksh script that has been running for several years. It recently stopped working and there has been no change to the script nor to the OS. My question is the error that is given does not appear to relate to a line number. Does anyone know what the following message means in regards to the value in the brackets?

"select_lib[33]: process already exists"

Re: Script stopped working!

Sandman! — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 12:40:45 GMT

Hi Raymond,

With the info provided its either a function or another shell script that is called from within this script. Might help if you could run your erroneous script in debug mode as follows:

# ksh -x

cheers!

Re: Script stopped working!

Arturo Galbiati — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 03:40:28 GMT

I agree with Sandman,
from your message it seems thatan object called select_lib has been created on your system, so when you try to invoke it, the system retruns error.
this can also explain why if you didn't tuch the script it not run now. No chnge in the script but in the environment.
I suggest you to chnage the name of your function. just a little trick: use always name in uppercase to avoid conflit with OS command.

HTH,
Art

Re: Script stopped working!

Vibhor Kumar Agarwal — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 03:48:16 GMT

May be killing that process help.