Why my shell script doesn't delete a file ???

[garlam]

I wrote this shell script:

#!/bin/sh

PATH=/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin; export PATH

echo "Content-type: text/html"
echo ""

ROOT=/app/webchecker/controller
FILEIN=$ROOT/log/servcheckerstat.txt
FILEDOWN=$ROOT/bin/down_
FILEOUT=/tmp/wcHtmlStat.$$
$ROOT/bin/servckhtmlstat W $FILEIN $FILEDOWN $FILEOUT $QUERY_STRING
cat $FILEOUT
rm -f $FILEOUT
exit 0

servckhtmlstat is a C program which do all the job and write the file.

The problem is:

the shell script doesn't remove the temporary file .... why ????

P.S

I call the script from an html page.

 

[predamarcel]

in (apache) error_log file you dont have anything related to this script ?

maybe you have to specify the absolute path for rm command ?!


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[garlam]

No, in the error log there is nothing about that.

The path for rm command is absolute, $FILEOUT is /tmp/...

 

[predamarcel]

I was talking about: /usr/bin/whatever/rm



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[PHV]

You may, for debugging purpose, add this after the echo "" line:
exec 2>/tmp/wcHtmlStat.err.$$; set -x

Hope This Helps, PH.
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[garlam]

I don't know what

exec 2>/tmp/wcHtmlStat.err.$$;

could do

 

[PHV]

exec 2>/tmp/wcHtmlStat.err.$$
Redirect all the sterr output to the specified file
set -x
Trace all the execution to stderr

Hope This Helps, PH.
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[roylec]

Just a note to check the obvious...

When you call servckhtmlstat, it tells the apache webserver to dump stats to the file you specify. This is done by the apache user, so the file is owned by the apache user.

If you run are running this script under a different user, your own user for example, the file will be created, but you will not have permissions to delete or otherwise edit the file ($FILEOUT)

My advice would be to check the user permissions of the resulting file, and remove the '-f' from the rm command so at least you get a reason printed to your console when you run the command (-f tells 'rm' to be silent).