Well, unfortunately, I'm not really executing xplaycd in the script. The "&" and ";" work fine on SunOS, Solaris, HP/UX and Ahmdahl bourne-shells. It also works under ash. I'm tempted to just install ash as the default shell, but I would like to run bash as my login shell. Is there any way to configure the alternatives to taste? Can I tell dpkg that I want bash to be bash and ash to be ash+sh? I do some other funky stuff in this script that also works elsewhere but fails under bash.
We have an HA pair of 2000s in london that runs a backup script. This script puts stuff from a handful of machines in the distributed environment plus its own database roll volumes on a tape and writes a list of what was dumped on BOT. This script only needs to run on the solaris machine (pair). My script needs to run _anywhere_ (don't ask why, its not worth getting into). I have it working everywhere, but tried to run it recently on my linux box and it sh*t the bed. I use an IFS management stack to simulate an array for parsing the list at BOT so I can dynamically create a restore menu for our operators to use for "automatic" data retrieval. This parsing allows the script to read new tapes -- even when the order of the backups changes, or the volumes change, etc., without me having to rewrite the restore menu script. I know this would be much easier in perl, but we don't have perl everywhere. We do have bourne-shell everywhere. The real solution is to use a more sophisticated backup and restore mechanism, but that's another war. The signal handling is also not working. I do some trapping in the script that gets ignored under bash for no apparent reason. Oh well. Richard G. Roberto [EMAIL PROTECTED] 011-81-3-3437-7967 - Tokyo, Japan -- ******************************************************************************* Bear Stearns is not responsible for any recommendation, solicitation, offer or agreement or any information about any transaction, customer account or account activity contained in this communication. ******************************************************************************* -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
