How to intercept the returncode?

[Guest_imported]

I'm using a scheduler for Oracle AND Unix tasks. Crontab is mostly involved, including 4 sh's for SSA (healthcheck, ela, link_speed, encl_healthcheck).
Two of these returns errors, returncode 5 and 254 in my scheduler.
Starting these scripts on unixprompts, there's no error at all (or does not show them).
How can I make these returncodes visible and/or where can I find the meaning of them???

 

[Guest_imported]

faultyscript
echo $?

and say
exit 0
at the end of cron scripts

 

[Guest_imported]

Indeed, 'echo $?' returns 5 (or 254). But what do they mean?
It's about:
/usr/lpp/diagnostics/bin/run_ssa_link_speed (rc = 5)
/usr/lpp/diagnostics/bin/run_ssa_healthcheck (rc = 254)

Exit 0 is just fooling the world.

 

[mkharris]

Have you tried runing diagnostics on your SSA adapter / enclosure / disks? Sounds like something's not quite right. The following link might help with SSA problem determination:

http://www.storage.ibm.com/hardsoft/products/ssa/index.html

Mark

 

[Yegolev]

Return codes are defined by the programmer, so they vary by script/prog. That means that zero is not always good, but by convention it means no errors occured. IBM Hardware Support would know, if anyone does.

Take Mark's advice, run `diag` and go into the SSA tools. At least do a link verification to check for bad drives, certify disks if suspect, and check errpt for SSA errors. I used to know how to do all that but time has fuzzied my memory. =)