error trying to execute a command using sh

[george anderson_7]

This is what I am tring to do from the command line and I get an error.

addo:applmgr--> pwd
/u11/oracle/fintestappl/admin/out

addo:applmgr--> sh zip -r xyz.zip appsutil
sh: zip: Execute permission denied.


If I run zip -r without sh it works. One of oracle's program is failing. We don't have source code for that programs it's a java. I am assuming that there program is doing this. Can you see how we can fix this this. I have opened a tar with oracle support also. Thanks

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

# sh -c "zip -r xyz.zip appsutil"

Regards!

...JRF...

[Dennis Handly]

Why would you want to use sh with zip if you can use zip directly?? About the only reason is that there is no execute permission on the script but you said it works without sh. Are there two different zip files in your path?

[Peter Nikitka]

Hi,

does Oracle internally call that command line?
If yes, it's a bug, of course.

To overcome this:
- check, which PATH setting is active, when this command line is called
- check the location of the real zip binary:
type zip
example: /opt/zip/bin/zip
- create an executable shellscript called zip containing:
/opt/zip/bin/zip "$@"
- place this script in a directory of PATH, that you see before the entry /opt/zip/bin (of the example above)

mfG Peter

[spex]

George,

Your syntax is incorrect; you need to use the '-c' option to 'sh' to make it accept a command. The way the command stands now, 'sh' expects 'zip' to be a shell script.

PCS