Script stopped working!

[Raymond R Walsh Jr]

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"

[Sandman! · Accepted solution]

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!

[Arturo Galbiati]

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

[Vibhor Kumar Agarwal]

May be killing that process help.