Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello all,

I'm hoping someone might be able to help me here. After installing Solaris, we use a script to copy site sepcific files over the machine. Now I want the script add the appropiate Sun patches as well. As the script hits that part it errors out, now the script finishes but the Patch part does not. I am not sure if its totally possible, but I am a firm believer that UNIX can be strecthed far and wide. I get the sense that the patch cannot run from within side the script, perhaps in its own shell? The purpose is to make all this non-interactive. So I'd like to be able run the script with no interaction.

Here is the part that spawns the patch part of the script, or is suppose to anyway:


#--------------------------------------------------------
case `uname -r` in
5.5.1)
# Install patches for 2.5.1
echo "Installing Patch cluster for Solaris 2.5.1"
/apps/patches/Solaris_2.5.1/2.5.1_Recommended/install_cluster -q
;;
5.6)
# Install Patches for 2.6
echo "Patches unavailable, Please install manually"
;;
5.7)
# Install Patches for 2.7
echo "Installing Patch Cluster for Solaris 7"
/apps/patches/Solaris_7/7_Recommended/install_cluster -q
;;
5.8)
# Install Patches for 2.8
echo "Installing Patch Cluster for Solaris 8"
./apps/patches/Solaris_8/8_Recommended/install_cluster -q
;;
5.9)
# Install Patches for 2.9
echo "Installing Patch Cluster for Solaris 9"
/apps/patches/Solaris_9/9_Recommended/install_cluster -q
;;
*)
;;

esac

You said the script errors out but then it finishes? So does the script end nicely or not? If not, what's the error you're getting?

Are you sure it's not just the last, default option that's being executed in the case statement and so nothing is being output to the screen?

Also, I noticed that only in one section of that statement did you use ./apps whereas the rest use /apps. This could be a big difference and could result in certain files not being found...

Error: for patch part

Patch Cluster install script for Solaris 9 Recommended

Determining if sufficient save space exists....
du: failed for /path/path: Cycle deteced
expr: syntax error

Then the script continues on finishing its other task. It seems to be doing a du in the directory where the script is sitting and not on the host machine.

I guess I have path issues, if i cd to the directory where the Patch Cluster resides it runs fine.