Scripting help

[cgswong]

Hi all, I'm having a little trouble with a script I wrote. The script shuts down all the databases and does a backup of necessary file systems. After the backup the databases are started back with a script the vendor wrote. The problem is that when their script runs it doesn't terminate and give back the command line. It does what its supposed to do does not give back the command line, it just sits their and I have to kill the process, or break out to end the script.

Can someone tell me what's wrong? Any help is appreciated, thanks.

- Stu

 

[jad]

when you kill the script has it finished doing everything it needs to?

it doesn't run a program that need to stay running does it?

if not have you found the line/section in the vendors script that stalls?

if all else fails you could always run the command spawned '&' command ...

Jon.

 

[cgswong]

No there's nothing that needs to run, and the vendor script seems okay. I already tried running it as spawned but that didn't work (that was surprising). Anything other ideas please?

 

[jad]

it doesn't have any 'sleep' commands or loops?

is it a big file? you could post it, or mail it to mailto:tektips@saiman.demon.co.uk

Jon

 

[cgswong]

I've sent the relevant section of the script to the address you specified. Thanks.

 

[jad]

right ... the script you've sent me seems sound ... but you might be in a loop when you call it, that might cause the problem ...

apart from lots of variables that it greps for (that i don't have set) and lots of variables that it prints (which i also don't have set) it is a basic list of if-then-else's checking for running processes, it doesn't actually run anything except ps and grep.

if this subsection is in the same file as the calling file, have you got an 'exit' statement anywhere in your script?

Jon