Shell Programming and Scripting

Hey Lads,

I have a shell script on a remote Server X that i need to execute from Server A. the script executes fine locally but remotely does not. It appears the script on the remote machine is calling another shell script which only has an array defined . Please see below the errors.

Code:

#remote_Script.sh

host=("1.2.3.4")

. another_script.sh

echo "executing"

for in in "${host[@]}"
do
echo $i"Hello World"
done

Code:

#another_script.sh

host=("1.1.1.1" "2.2.2.2" "3.3.3.3")

The command i'm using to execute the remote script.

Code:

ssh -qt root@X '/path/to/remotescript/remote_Script.sh'

Here is the output i get

Code:

/path/to/remotescript/remote_Script.sh : another_script.sh: No such file or directory. 

executing
1.2.3.4Hello World

Instead of printing the I.P's present in another_script.sh, its printing the entries in the array "host". how do i get around this?

Use a full path to the another_script.sh, inside the remote_script.

thanks for the reply but the script another_script.sh has permission 640 and i don't have privileges to change them. I've already tried giving the full path, since no one has execute permission it errors out.

You show that you are logging in as the root user. Who owns the file?
Why not just read the contents of that second script file and merge it into the one script. You're sourcing that script to save environment variable content. What does your system administrator think of this issue?

couple of questions:

Hi Vgersh99

to answer your question

1. its in the same directory as the remote script.
2. although i'm a root user i cannot change the permission because the script is source controlled and against policy to change permission.

Thanks

if the script is not executable, what exactly is the purpose of the script?
If you cannot modify a 'remote_script.sh', I don't think there's much you can do....