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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Send correct exit code from child script back to parent Post 302641605 by black_fender on Wednesday 16th of May 2012 10:04:28 AM
Old 05-16-2012
In the main script can you try this :

instead

ssh faunus:/home/dslmain/scripts/senddcmcadefttest.sh
this :

ssh user@remote_machine "/home/dslmain/scripts/senddcmcadefttest.sh ; exit \$?"

Basically this way I make sure that the ssh ends with same exit status as the remotely launched script . Hope the ssh method suites you, is the way I used it and worked for me.

---------- Post updated at 09:04 AM ---------- Previous update was at 08:54 AM ----------

If this doesn't work I'd also suggest a basic check: launching the remote script directly, on the remote machine and make sure that it returns the desired exit status codes. To make sure that the exit status is ok but you;re just not able to capture it and eliminate the possibility that the exit status is wrong ( "0" ) and you';re capturing it right.
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LEARN ABOUT POSIX

ssh-argv0

SSH-ARGV0(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 					      SSH-ARGV0(1)

NAME

     ssh-argv0 -- replaces the old ssh command-name as hostname handling

SYNOPSIS

     hostname | user@hostname [-l login_name] [command]

     hostname | user@hostname [-afgknqstvxACNTX1246] [-b bind_address] [-c cipher_spec] [-e escape_char] [-i identity_file] [-l login_name]
     [-m mac_spec] [-o option] [-p port] [-F configfile] [-L port:host:hostport] [-R port:host:hostport] [-D port] [command]

DESCRIPTION

     ssh-argv0 replaces the old ssh command-name as hostname handling.	If you link to this script with a hostname then executing the link is
     equivalent to having executed ssh with that hostname as an argument.  All other arguments are passed to ssh and will be processed normally.

OPTIONS

     See ssh(1).

FILES

     See ssh(1).

AUTHORS

     OpenSSH is a derivative of the original and free ssh 1.2.12 release by Tatu Ylonen.  Aaron Campbell, Bob Beck, Markus Friedl, Niels Provos,
     Theo de Raadt and Dug Song removed many bugs, re-added newer features and created OpenSSH.  Markus Friedl contributed the support for SSH
     protocol versions 1.5 and 2.0.  Jonathan Amery wrote this ssh-argv0 script and the associated documentation.

SEE ALSO

     ssh(1)

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