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Old 01-14-2002
Data to log a installation

hi

i am using borne shell script to install.
In the script i get from the user some input and then to do pkgadd and some sqlplus commands.

I want to capture all the information to the logfile.

if i use , tee command i dont get the user entered input.

can u let me know ,how to capture both the input and output to a log file.


thanks
# 2  
Old 01-18-2002
What other output are you missing from the scirpt that you would like? I assume you are reading the user input into a variable. In that case, just echo the variable to the log. For SQL, just add run spool <spoolfilename> as the first command in SQL.
# 3  
Old 01-18-2002
at present i am doing that, but there is the script command... why cant we use it inside the shell script.

just start it at the begging of the script and exit it at the end.

cant we do it like that?
# 4  
Old 01-18-2002
What about using echo to put their responses in another file? This could also be used to tell you about their environment, where in the script they were, etc...
for example:
Code:
#!/bin/sh
echo > .in_script.log
echo "Install script started at `date`" >>.in_script.log
echo "Started in `pwd`" >>.in_script.log
echo " What is your name? \c"
read cust_name
echo "Customer name is $cust_name" >>.in_script.log
echo " Would you like to [I]nstall, or [U]ninstall? \c"
read in_question
echo "User selected $in_question for install / uninstall" >>.in_script.log
case $in_question in
i*|I*) blah ;;
u*|U*) blah2 ;;
*) echo "Eek! " ;;
esac
{.......}

It may seem like a pain now, but it will definitely be worth it when diagnosing problems...
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