Re: Shell-script question
On Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 03:42:15PM +0100, Andre Berger wrote:
> 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
>
I missed the first part of this so I apologize if I'm repeating but make
the permissions of your script something like -
-rwxrw-rwx 1 root root
and see if that helps.
kent
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