Re: Migration despite an RC bug?

[Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

Don Armstrong writes ("Re: Migration despite an RC bug?"):
> I'm still not quite sure how the script was failing. The outer shell
> invocation which calls a perl script to do the versioning database
> update is run with set -e, and the perl script should exit with non-zero
> if it fails to work properly. However, it appears that when buxtehude is
> restarted, the perl script is killed before the outer bash script
> completes but the exit state isn't properly handled?

I've debugged a lot of this kind of thing.  Point me at your
(pre-just-fixed) code and I might spot it ?

> I've fixed this by making the perl script do all of the logic which was
> in the bash script originally so if it fails, it should at least do so
> gracefully.

That may well help.  Or maybe the bug is in a higher layer somewhere.
Are HTTP and CGI involved ?

Ian.

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