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# 8  
Old 06-28-2011
it will work

did u redirect the stdout and stderr to log file ?( as i mentioned in the above post)

Code:
1>/tmp/otuput 2>&1

# 9  
Old 06-29-2011
Any errors from the script will be in unix mail for the owner of the cron.

What Operating System and version are you runnning?
When running from the command line, what Shell are you running?
Code:
echo $SHELL

If you are actually running "ksh", there appear to be syntax errors in the script.
e.g.
Code:
MAILING_LIST= xxxxxxxx@something.com

Further:
The "ssh" command lines need the "-n" parameter in this context. This is very important with ksh.
In all the scripts it would reduce the complexity if you have a Shebang line at the start of each script and stop invoking "ksh scriptname".

Further:
I think that these "mailx" commands will hang waiting for keyboard input.
Quote:
mailx -s "OBJECT SCRIPT FAILURE on $name" $MAILING_LIST
mailx -s "OBJECT SCRIPT SUCCESS $name" ${MAILING_LIST}
As a minimum, try:
Code:
echo ""|mailx -s "OBJECT SCRIPT FAILURE on $name" $MAILING_LIST
echo ""|mailx -s "OBJECT SCRIPT SUCCESS $name" ${MAILING_LIST}


The script do-done loops appears to have two conflicting inputs! For example:
Quote:
for line in $(</opt/app/p1trp1c1/sybase/ecdwqdm/xrbid/QDM_Prod/cfg/svrnames.dat)
;
do
echo $line | read servername
export name=$servername
done < $SVRNM
You probably mean:
Code:
for servername in $(</opt/app/p1trp1c1/sybase/ecdwqdm/xrbid/QDM_Prod/cfg/svrnames.dat)
do
export name=$servername
done

And
Code:
for line in $(</opt/app/p1trp1c1/sybase/ecdwqdm/xrbid/QDM_Prod/cfg/svrnames1.dat)
do
export name=$servername
done


Last edited by methyl; 06-29-2011 at 08:44 AM..
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