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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to redirect the messages from the script to console in Linux? Post 302924818 by Don Cragun on Wednesday 12th of November 2014 01:34:45 PM
Old 11-12-2014
Please look at post #2 in this thread. You seem to have ignored everything I asked.

Change your script to the following and run it from the command line (not from cron):
Code:
#!/bin/bash
printf 'start is set to "%s"\n' "$start"
ls -l /user/script/$start.sh /user/script/start.sh
echo "running $0"
if [ -e /user/script/$start.sh ]
then 
echo "starting service"
else
echo " service not started" 
echo " Please check the start.sh file or manually start the service" 
fi

Note that I added the space in your [ command that I told you had to add before. Without that space, your syntax error guarantees that the then clause in your if statement will NEVER be executed.

Then notice that there is absolutely nothing in your script that will start anything! You check to see if a file exists (and, by convention, it looks like that file is a shell script), but if that file does exist, there is no attempt to execute it. If you were ever to execute the command:
Code:
echo "starting service"

it would be reporting a lie. This script never makes any attempt to start anything even after the syntax error is corrected!
 

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