Shell Programming and Scripting

on_error_continue()
{
if [[ $? -ne 0 ]]; then
print "$1"
#exit $?
continue
fi
}

for hostname in cat hostfile
do 
rcp $DEPLOY $hostname:/var/tmp/$TYPE
on_error_continue "Could not remote copy"
rsh $hostname "nice -n 39 ksh /var/tmp/$TYPE &"
on_error_continue "Could not mount the NAS"
done

# pass in the status to check as $1; the res of the parameters are the message if
# the status wasn't good
#
function on_error_continue
{
    rc=$1           # snag the exit code passed in

    if (( $rc > 0 ))
    then
        print "$2"
        #exit $?        # using $? here will be the exit code of the print; use exit $1 
    fi
}

#for hostname in cat hostfile   # this will not work -- it will run the loop for "cat" and "hostfile" and won't cat the hostfile
while read hostname
do
    rcp $DEPLOY $hostname:/var/tmp/$TYPE
    on_error_continue $? "Could not remote copy to $hostname"
    rsh $hostname "nice -n 39 ksh /var/tmp/$TYPE &"
    on_error_continue $? "Could not mount the NAS on $hostname"
done <hostfile   # read directly from hostfile; no need to use cat

while read hostname
do
    if !  rcp $DEPLOY $hostname:/var/tmp/$TYPE
    then
        print "Could not remote copy to $hostname"
        continue
    fi

    if !  rsh $hostname "nice -n 39 ksh /var/tmp/$TYPE &"
    then
        print "Could not mount the NAS on $hostname"
    fi
done <hostfile

rsh host ksh scriptname &

wait;ec=$?
if [ "$ec" -ne 0 ]
then
   <do whatever you want to report the error>
else
    <do whatever you want to report successful completion>
fi

wait;ec=$?
if [ "$ec" -ne 0 ]

if wait