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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Need a condition to account for failed nslookups Post 302599498 by MaindotC on Friday 17th of February 2012 09:48:56 AM
Old 02-17-2012
Need a condition to account for failed nslookups

I need some help creating a condition for looking up hosts. I have this master host file that has data in the following columns:
Code:
FQDN     primary IP     secondary IP     third IP

I need the hostnames to feed into another script I use for provisioning users. The FQDN doesn't always work for connection attempts and sometimes the hostname needs a different suffix (.svr.company.net, company.net, company.com, etc). Unfortunately this master host file is not managed by me and I do not have the ability to fix the hostnames origin in the file. However it does provide the IP's which I can look up and that gives me the appropriate FQDN. The other script in which this information is fed will only accept the hostname, not the IP.

So I run a loop to cat the master hosts file, awk for column 2, and nslookup the value at the time of the iteration. The thing I need help with is I need a condition to say "if the IP from column 2 does not resolve, try the one from column 3, and if that doesn't resolve then try the IP from column 4". I was toying with an if/else statement:
Code:
if [ nslookup $(cat line | awk -F " " {'print $2'}) | grep NXDOMAIN ]
     then try column 3
else
     proceed to the next line

I'm not really sure how it should look and I'm waiting on support so I thought I'd try here.
 

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pthread_condattr_init(3T)												 pthread_condattr_init(3T)

NAME
pthread_condattr_init(), pthread_condattr_destroy() - initialize or destroy a condition variable attributes object. SYNOPSIS
PARAMETERS
attr Pointer to the condition variable attributes object to be initialized or destroyed. DESCRIPTION
initializes the condition variable attributes object attr with the default values for all attributes. The attributes object describes a condition variable in detail and is passed to the condition variable initialization function. When a condition variable attributes object is used to initialize a condition variable, the values of the individual attributes determine the characteristics of the new condition variable. Attributes objects act like additional parameters to object initialization. A single attributes object can be used in multiple calls to the function When a condition variable is initialized with an attributes object, the attributes are, in effect, copied into the condition variable. Consequently, any change to the attributes object will not affect any previously initialized condition variables. Once all condition vari- ables needing a specific attributes object have been initialized, the attributes object is no longer needed. The condition variable attributes and their default values are: The default value is If an initialized condition variable attributes object is reinitialized, undefined behavior results. destroys the condition variable attributes object attr. The destroyed condition variable attributes object ceases to exist and its resources are reclaimed. Using attr after it has been destroyed results in undefined behavior. A destroyed condition variable attributes object can be reinitialized using the function Condition variables that have been already initialized using this attributes object are not affected by the destruction of the condition variable attributes object. RETURN VALUE
Upon successful completion, and return zero. Otherwise, an error number is returned to indicate the error (the variable is not set). ERRORS
If any of the following occur, the function returns the corresponding error number: [ENOMEM] There is insufficient memory available in which to initialize the condition variable attributes object. [EINVAL] attr is not a valid condition variable attributes object. For each of the following conditions, if the condition is detected, the function returns the corresponding error number: [EINVAL] attr is not a valid condition variable attributes object. AUTHOR
and were derived from the IEEE POSIX P1003.1c standard. SEE ALSO
pthread_create(3T), pthread_condattr_getpshared(3T), pthread_cond_init(3T). STANDARDS CONFORMANCE
Pthread Library pthread_condattr_init(3T)
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