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Article #1577Re: AIX "csh" silently exits from csh scripts (a little long...)
From: Charlie Sauer
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 1989 15:44
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 1989 15:44
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In article <9440@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>, dyer@arktouros.MIT.EDU (Steve Dyer) writes:
> In article <9422@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> dyer@arktouros.mit.edu (Steve Dyer) writes:
> >Briefly, in attempting to port a large software product whose
> >installation scripts use the C-Shell, I'm finding that most of
> >them, when running under AIX, just exit without executing any commands.
>
> Just a few more details: we're running AIX 2.2.1, and the problem can
> be better described as C-shell scripts invoked by their absolute
> pathname work fine, but single component names fail silently.
>
> I.e., if the file /tmp/foo contains
> #!/bin/csh
> echo foo
>
> and is mode 755, owner root, the following all fail:
> cd /tmp
> foo
> ./foo
> csh foo
>
> but either of these succeed:
>
> /tmp/foo
> csh /tmp/foo
Steve,
I missed your initial posting. I see it is on emx, which provides my feed, so
I wonder how I don't have it. In any case, I've tried your example on 2.2.1
with update 1721 applied and don't see the problem, i.e., I created your
example as described, ran it as both root and guest and all 10 times (2 id's,
5 invocations) produced "foo" as desired. I don't know offhand if csh was
changed in any of the updates to 2.2.1 (my guess is that you got 1722 when
you got 2.2.1, but I don't know, of course). sum -r on my csh gives
16773 197 /bin/csh
If you have a different binary, we can try to explore it from that point of
view, otherwise, I assume this is symptomatic of other problems. I use a few
csh scripts daily, some invoked by absolute path, e.g., /u/bin/errmail:
#!/bin/csh
set month = `date +%m`
set day = `date +%d`
set year = `date +%y`
(errpt -s ${month}${day}0000${year} \
|& grep -v Diskette \
|& grep -v tty \
|& grep -v SNA \
|& grep -v Tokenring_DLC;\
(echo 'Device Mounted on total free used ifree used';\
df| grep /dev/hd))\
|& mail -s `uname -n` root
invoked at 2359 by cron, and, of course, which.csh lifted from 4.3/RT, which is
just invoked as which, and have not observed any such problems.
Charlie
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