RE: Script not terminating properly

"Geoffrey Scott" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.org.user-groups.mlug.main
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Russell Shaw wrote:
> Geoffrey Scott wrote:
>> Russell Shaw wrote:
>> 
>>> Geoffrey Scott wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi ppl,
>>>> 	I can't for the life of me figure out why this script below
>>>> doesn't finish.  Can anyone see what I have done wrong?
>>>> 
>>>> #!/bin/bash
>>>> . /usr/local/open-xchange/etc/admintools.conf
>>>> 
>>>> if [ "$1" = "--stop" ]
>>>> then...
>>> 
>>> It's easiest to put: echo "passNNN" statements on every few lines.
>>> 
>> 
>> That's what I did when I stuck in the echo `date` echo "all done"
>> 
>> Lines at the end.  It gets to echoing "all done" and then stops. 
>> This script is actually called from my main backup server, hence the
>> --start and --stop.
> 
> Does the script reach the end but then hang instead of exiting?
> 

Yup. See my reply to Will for the script that calls this one.  Maybe I am
missing something in that one.....



Regards Geoff Scott
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