Re: Shell-script question

[Andre Berger <uzscd5@uni-bonn.de>]

On 2001-02-11 15:16 +0100, Erdmut Pfeifer <e.pfeifer@science-computing.de> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 02:26:51PM +0100, Andre Berger wrote:
> > I wrote a shell script "/usr/local/bin/mailcheck" (/usr/local/bin/ is in
> > $PATH of my potato bash) that gives a list of pon "targets" (diff.
> > ISPs), and is owned by root., perms 755. I've virtually no experience
> > with shell scripting, so it may be poor quality. Anyway: If the script
> > is invoked from a command line within or outside X, it works.  If it's
> > invoked via "rxvt -e mailcheck" or "rxvt -ls -e mailcheck", everything
> > looks normal, but nothing's dialed. 
> 
> just guessing...: maybe you have different sets of environment
> variables for the different invocations. From where do you execute the
> "rxvt ..."? 

icewm's menu.

> You might want to put a "set >/tmp/somefile" in your script
> and see if the relevant env settings differ from where you can invoke
> it successfully...
> 
> Erdmut

< is from the command line, > from the script via icewm's menu/rxvt.

< BASH=/bin/bash
> BASH=/bin/sh
< LC_MESSAGES=POSIX
> LC_MESSAGES=en_US
< PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/local/lib/wp/wpbin
> PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games
< SHELLOPTS=braceexpand:hashall:histexpand:monitor:history:interactive-comments:emacs
> SHELLOPTS=braceexpand:hashall:interactive-comments
< _=LC_MESSAGES
< i=LC_IDENTIFICATION=de_DE
> _=sh

Can you see from this what's wrong?

Andre Berger                                [andre.berger@topmail.de]