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Homework and Emergencies Emergency UNIX and Linux Support Script issue - Prints pages with jibberish... Post 302555784 by zixzix01 on Thursday 15th of September 2011 02:31:44 PM
Old 09-15-2011
Script issue - Prints pages with jibberish...
Hi all,

I have a script from a programmer, for which I need to analyze a problem.

The script gathers audit info and prints out the results. Two different departments use it, on two different printers. In the script department the there are no issues. In the other department the same script produces "problem" pages among the normal pages. They are either blank, or full of random collection of characters.

I need to put some kind of echo statements around the print functions and redirect it to a sort of error_show.txt file, so that we can see what is happening. We presume it is due to the usage of different printers.

If we can visualize the errors we can see if it is a problem with printer type or settings or whatnot.

This is the code

Code:
#!/usr/bin/sh
 export PATH=/usr/bin:${PATH}
 PRINTER="system"  
 ERRFILE=$(mktemp -c)
 while getopts d: optchar; do
 case $optchar in
 d)
 PRINTER=$OPTARG;;
 esac
 done
 if [ -z "${PRINT_SERVER_HOME}" ]; then
 [[ -f `cat /etc/PRINT_SERVER_HOME`/custom/etc/setup_env.sh ]] && . `cat /etc/PRINT_SERVER_HOME`/custom/etc/setup_env.sh
 fi
 if [ -z "${PRINT_SERVER_HOME}" ]; then
 echo "Unable to setup PRINT_SERVER environment"
 echo "Exitting..."
 exit 1
 fi
 cd /var/spool/edi/ebill/audits
 # We would like to print Audit files for AVAL
 # if file aval.lst existed then delete it
 if [ -e aval.lst ]; then
 rm aval.lst
 fi
 # if avalaudt3.* exists then execute ll command below
 if [ -e avalaudt3.* ]; then
 ll avalaudt3.*>>aval.lst
 fi
 AVALFILELIST=$(gfind . -type f -name "avalaudt3.???" | sort -t'.' +2 )
 AVALNEWFILELIST=""
 for AVALFILE in ${AVALFILELIST}; do
 if [ -s ${AVALFILE} ]; then
 AVALNEWFILELIST="${AVALNEWFILELIST} $(pwd)/${AVALFILE##./}"
 fi
 done
 # if file aval.lst exists and not empty
 if [ -s aval.lst ]; then
 ${PRINT_SERVER_HOME}/bin/pdpr -d${PRINTER} -x"-start-sheet none" ${AVALNEWFILELIST} >${ERRFILE} 2>&1
 fi
 if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
 echo "ERROR: pdpr command failed for file aval.lst" >&2
 cat ${ERRFILE} >&2
 fi
 rm -f ${ERRFILE} 2>/dev/null

I have highlighted the print function. Any help would be appreciated. The programmer inherited the script an doesn't want to delve too deeply into it.

I, however, would like to figure out what is happening and not waste the paper. However, this kind of script is way above my head, as of right now.
Last edited by zixzix01; 09-15-2011 at 03:51 PM..
 

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LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS

audit_startup

audit_startup(1M)					  System Administration Commands					 audit_startup(1M)

NAME

       audit_startup - audit subsystem initialization script

SYNOPSIS

       /etc/security/audit_startup

DESCRIPTION

       The  audit_startup  script is used to initialize the audit subsystem before the audit deamon is started. This script is configurable by the
       system administrator, and currently consists of a series of auditconfig(1M) commands to set the system default  policy,	and  download  the
       initial event to class mapping.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface Stability	     |Obsolete Committed	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       auditconfig(1M), auditd(1M), bsmconv(1M), attributes(5)

       See the section on Solaris Auditing in System Administration Guide: Security Services.

NOTES

       The  functionality  described  in  this man page is available only if the Basic Security Module (BSM) has been enabled. See bsmconv(1M) for
       more information.

       This command is Obsolete and may be removed and replaced with equivalent functionality in a future release of Solaris.

SunOS 5.11							    20 Jan 2009 						 audit_startup(1M)
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