RE: Script not terminating properly

I should have given more info shouldn't I.....
 
this is the script on the backup server that calls the other on the mail
server:
 
#!/bin/bash
 
/usr/bin/ssh [email protected]
/root/scripts/PrepareForRsync2Fpmelb.sh --stop
 
echo "OK. Now we rsync the selected directories"
 

/usr/bin/rsync -Razor --delete --files-from=/root/scripts/mailRsyncFiles.txt
\
mail.guestshire.com:/ /home/backup/mail/
 

/usr/bin/ssh  <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected]
"/root/scripts/PrepareForRsync2Fpmelb.sh --start"
 
echo "this is the final line from fpmelb's backupmail script"
 
 
So the --stop part of the script successfully completes, then the rsync,
then the --start part to start the services again, then it hangs and never
hands the shell prompt back to the backup server.
 
unfortunatley I tried your suggestion and it still hangs.........

Regards Geoff Scott

 

 

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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
Of Will Wheatley
Sent: Thursday, 3 November 2005 5:09 PM
To: Melbourne Linux Users Group
Subject: Re: [MLUG] Script not terminating properly


Hi,

What i think is happening.....

one of the scripts you are calling is spawning a child process (obviously as
it is starting your process :)

The bash process that is processing your script is actually waiting for one
or more child processes to exit, so it seems to hang...

I would think its the following line 

/root/scripts/dumpOXexpectScrpt.exp /var/backups/openexchangedb.out \

$DEFAULT_SQL_DB $DEFAULT_SQL_USER $DEFAULT_SQL_PASS

only because the init.d scripts usually spawn correctly :) you could try
putting a & at the end of the line above .... and seeing if it still hangs?


On 11/3/05, Geoffrey Scott <[email protected]> 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.


Regards Geoff Scott


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