Originally Posted by rbatte1

You didn't tell us your shell. I will assume ksh.

So how do you know your scripts have finished? You are simply getting the return code from the submission of a background job. I think you need something more like:-

Code:

(/tmp/commet/bin/connectdb1.sh;print $?>/tmp/db1.ret )&
(/tmp/commet/bin/connectdb2.sh;print $?>/tmp/db2.ret )&

wait

condb1=`cat /tmp/db1.ret`
condb2=`cat /tmp/db2.ret`

if [ $condb1 -ne 0 ] || [ $condb2 -ne 0 ]
then
   echo " Error executing one of the two scripts ...."
fi

Note the extra spaces in the if statement between the square brackets and the values. This might not apply in your shell, but it's a good bet it does looking at your message. Pretty basic stuff, but easy to get wrong.

This is a bit of a clunky way to do it, but this way will wait for both to complete before you get an answer. Is that okay? Be careful that there are no other background tasks, or it will wait for them too.

If you need to know as soon as one finished, there are ways to look at that, but hopefully the simple way will work for you.

Another way might be a co-process, but I'm not so good with them.




I hope that this helps,
Robin
Liverpool/Blackburn
UK