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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Invoke script within a script Post 67541 by mskarica on Wednesday 23rd of March 2005 11:46:31 PM
Old 03-24-2005
I don't know what is happening. Let me give a little scope of my problem:
1) An email is received, and it is forwarded to a shell script.
2) the main script copies entire email contents to a file
3) the main script calls another script to extract the email address of the sender (the previous problem that I mentioned)
4) the main script then calls another script to validate that email address (I have a text file that contains all of the valid emails), and the other script also writes some information such as the users name, etc, to a file name OWNER

This is where I'm having a problem now. If I invoke the main script (the same script invoked when an email is received) from the command prompt, it works fine. But when an email is received, and the main script is invoked, everything works, except #4. It seems like its sending empty strings as the parameters to the script (I tried outputing the values of the variables I'm passing as parameters, and they have the correct values in the main script. Then I also output the variables in script that is invoked, but it outputs empty lines)

I dont even know how to ask my question, I'm just venting now I guess. If you have any suggestions for me, please throw'em at me, if not, thanks for reading.

By the way, here's how I've tried calling the script from within the main script:
/path/to/script ${arg1} ${arg2}
/path/to/script `echo ${arg1} ${arg2}`

Maybe I just need to take a break, and look at it again, maybe I'm just missing something.
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

script-email

SCRIPT-EMAIL(8) 					  System Administration Commands					   SCRIPT-EMAIL(8)

NAME

       script-email - Amanda script to send email notifications

DESCRIPTION

       script-email is an Amanda script implementing the Script API. It should not be run by users directly. It sends a notification email to the
       addresses specified in the MAILTO property.

PROPERTIES

       This section lists the properties that control script-email's functionality. See amanda-scripts(7) for information on the Script API,
       script configuration.

       MAILTO

	   List of email addresses that will receive an email on command execution. It is a multi-valued property:
	     property "MAILTO" "amanda@domain.com" "sysadmin@domain.com" "amandauser@domain.com"

EXAMPLE

       In this example, script-email is scheduled to be run before the DLE, on the server.  The unqualified email address amanda will be passed to
       the email system unchanged.  The script is then attached to a dumptype, which can then be specified for any DLEs which require
       notification.
	define script-tool pre-email {
	  comment "email me before this DLE is backed up"
	  plugin  "script-email"
	  execute-on pre-dle-backup
	  execute-where server
	  property "mailto" "amanda"
	}

	define dumptype user-tar-email {
	  user-tar
	  script "pre-email"
	}

SEE ALSO

       amanda(8), amanda.conf(5), amanda-client.conf(5), amanda-scripts(7)

       The Amanda Wiki: : http://wiki.zmanda.com/

AUTHORS

       Jean-Louis Martineau <martineau@zmanda.com>
	   Zmanda, Inc. (http://www.zmanda.com)

       Dustin J. Mitchell <dustin@zmanda.com>
	   Zmanda, Inc. (http://www.zmanda.com)

Amanda 3.3.1							    02/21/2012							   SCRIPT-EMAIL(8)
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