Re: Script not terminating properly

Geoffrey Scott wrote:
> 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] <mailto:[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 [email protected] <mailto:[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

Maybe you could run the scripts manually on the command line to see what
they do. If one of them tries to ask the user/terminal on stdin, that
could hang when it's in the background.