HP-UX

Hi, the only experience I have with Unix is on C360 workstations using 10.20 and Omniback II to restore email with HP Openmail. I have four brand new machines that I am installing the OS and software on, however, their are scripts that were written specifically for our tape process that I have gotten onto a new machine via FTP, but when I try to use them, they don't work. Can anyone help me understand why not??

Thank you!

Have all machines got the operating system installed? What version? Post results on "uname -a".

How are you talking to the machines? FTP is just for file transfer.

I already have six machines, just got four new ones. All are identical, platform is HPUX 10.20. All the old ones have a directory named tapescripts and I have connected via ftp and said "get <name of script>" for each one in that directory. Is this wrong and that's why they don't work correctly on the new machines?

If you got them by FTP, they are probably not executable: chmod 755 scriptname

If you already did that, is your problem could be that you need to do:

./scriptname

because root won't have "." in its PATH.

Hi would you mind telling me exactly what the chmod command will do. Do I have to do that for each individual script name? Not a Unix expert, I should probably be in the Unix for dummies forum. Let's just say I would guard these scripts with my life cuz they save me a crapload of headaches. I didn't write them, needless to say.

I turned on all the permissions for all the tape scripts, I noticed that this is how the scripts are set on the older machines. Unfortunately, they still won't run.

What error do you get ? and can we have a look at the shell script?