error starting concurrent managers

[Dave Chamberlin]

I am running Oracle 7.3.4 with apps 10.7 on my shiny new N box. When starting the concurrent managers (startmgr) I get the error:
batchmgr[160]: /var/tmp/sh9809.2 cannot find or open the file.
Line 160 of batchmgr is:
nohup $shell << \end_logging >> $log 2>&1 &
The managers do not come up. If I run startmgr again, there is no error and all is fine. I'm afraid I don't fully understand what is line 160 doing. I know that the last part of the line is sending output to $log, redirecting errors to /dev/null, but what is the first part of the line doing? Does anyone know why this is failing the first time? Thanks.

[harry d brown jr]

Shouldn't it be a forward slash, and not a backward slash?

nohup $shell << /end_logging >> $log 2>&1 &

[Wodisch · Accepted solution]

Hello Dave,

it should NOT be slash at all, perhaps it could be a dash...
The reason is the a statement like this:
sh <>output.log
echo this
echo that
ENDMARK

redirects the lines between the "<"ENDMARK" to the standard input of the command (sh
in this example). If it does have "-" after the "<<"
the white space at the begining of those lines is ignored.

HTH,
Wodisch

[Sridhar Bhaskarla]

There is a syntax error on Line 160. It shouldn't be \. Morever it is trying to read from the from till this marker. You should give us little more of this script. Can you print in top 5 lines and bottom 10 lines after this line?.

Now, shell is somewhere defined in the script as a command and it is being executed as no hup taking arguments till the mark "end_logging". Take out "\" and see if it
works.

You should be having something like this

nohup $shell << end_logging >> $log 2>&1
....
some commands
....
end_logging

-Sri

[Wodisch]

Hello Dave,

I am not quite certain on this, but if the "here document"
(that how the "<<" feature is called) uses a single-quote
quoted endmark, then not substitution happens on the
input lines, so that might be intended in your script...
If this is true, then change the endmark from
\mark
to
'mark'
and see wether it works now.

Just my ?0.02 (after a very long day),
Wodisch

[Alexander M. Ermes]

Hi there.
Have you checked your directory /var/tmp for the correct rights or owner ?
Does this directory exist or is it a link to something else ?
Rgds
Alexander M. Ermes

[Dave Chamberlin]

Thanks for the help. I think I understand what is going on - except for the slash. The script was not working due to the logfile not being found, since I created new log files and that problem went away. On to the next one...