Guys any tips on printing a certain error message to stderr and exiting should a command fail within a ksh script? I'm trying to null some output files.
Touch isn't suitable as i need to null them.
print "" > file isn't suitable as i need to check elsehere for if they are 0bytes or not.
I've tried these below examples and none work correctly. I don't want to have to put a check after each command as :-
Below tests don't work correctly. I'm guessing its spawning something.
I need to print some mandatory instructions if something fails in the script. I am using set -e to check and exit the script if some scripts/commands return non zero exit code. Is there any way to print these instructions with set command?? (0 Replies)
I want to capture actual error message in case the commands I use in my shell script fails.
For eg:
ls -l abc.txt 2>>errorlog.txt
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hi All
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Hi everyone,
when executing this command in unix:
echo "WM7 Fatal Alerts:", $(cat query1.txt) > a.csvIt works fine, but running this command in a shell script gives an error saying that there's a syntax error.
here is content of my script:
tdbsrvr$ vi hc.sh
"hc.sh" 22 lines, 509... (4 Replies)
Hi,
Want to log the output of command & check the exit status to find whether it succeeded or failed.
> ls abc
ls: abc: No such file or directory
> echo $?
1
> ls abc 2>&1 | tee log
ls: abc: No such file or directory
> echo $?
0
Tee commands changes my exit status to be always... (7 Replies)
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Input is list of Server's, script is basically to remove old_rootvg, So it should check first command "alt_rootvg_op -X old_rootvg" if it passes move to next server and starts check and if it fails moves to other command "exportvg old_rootvg" for only that particular server. I came up with below,... (6 Replies)
Hi,
i am new here let me say HI for all.
now i have a question please:
i am sending one command to my machine to create 3 names.
if one of the names exists then the box return error message that already have the name but will continue to create the rests.
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rbacdbchk
rbacdbchk(1M)rbacdbchk(1M)NAME
rbacdbchk - Verifies the syntax of the Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) database files
SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION
verifies that there are no conflicting or inconsistent entries in and amongst the RBAC database files. also checks the syntax of the data-
base files and prints messages indicating which lines contain errors. returns zero output if no errors are present in the database files.
All the RBAC database files and are verified. See rbac(5) for more information on these RBAC database files.
Options
supports the following options:
Checks the
database.
Checks the
database.
Checks the
database.
Checks the
database.
Checks the
database.
Cross reference checks all databases.
EXTERNAL INFLUENCES
Environment Variables
determines the language in which messages are displayed.
International Code Set Support
Single-byte character code set is supported.
RETURN VALUE
0. Success
1. Incorrect syntax
EXAMPLES
The following example finds an error that user is an invalid user
# rbacdbchk
[/etc/rbac/user_role] John: Administrator
invalid user
The value 'John' for the Username field is bad.
The following example finds a syntax error, an extra colon at the end of a line:
# rbacdbchk
[/etc/rbac/user_role] root: Administrator:
invalid name: Not alphanumeric
The value 'Administrator:' for the Rolename field is bad.
[Role in role_auth DB with no assigned user in user_role DB]
Administrator:(hpux.*, *)
The following example finds a field missing:
# rbacdbchk
[/etc/rbac/roles] : my comment
invalid name: <empty>
The value '' for the Rolename field is bad.
The following example finds a bad role:
# rbacdbchk
[Role in role_auth DB with no assigned user in user_role DB]
blah:(hpux.*, *)
[Invalid Role in role_auth DB. Role 'blah' does not exist in the roles DB]
blah:(hpux.*, *)
The following example finds a bad group name:
# rbacdbchk
[/etc/rbac/user_role] &blah: Administrator
invalid group
The value 'blah' for the Group name field is bad.
FILES
Database containing valid definitions of all roles.
Database containing definitions of all valid authorizations.
Database specifying the roles for each specified user.
Database that defines the authorizations for each role.
Database containing the authorization to execute specified commands,
and the privileges to alter uid and gid for command execution.
Database that defines the role-to-authorization to audit
SEE ALSO authadm(1M), cmdprivadm(1M), privrun(1M), rbac(5).
rbacdbchk(1M)