Re: What is the different between cron executing and shell execution?

[Alvin Oga <aoga@ns.Linux-Consulting.com>]

On Sun, 30 Jan 2005, h.wulff wrote:

> if ( ! $SAV_INSTALL_PRG $SAV_INSTALL_OPTIONS 1>/dev/null )

  if [ ! "$SAV_INSTALL_PRG $SAV_INSTALL_OPTIONS" 1>/dev/null ]
 
> then
>     echo "Unable to install the new engine"
>     echo "Command: \"$SAV_INSTALL_PRG $SAV_INSTALL_OPTIONS\""
>     LOG2SYSLOG "ERROR: Unable to install the new engine."
> else
>     cd $TMP

ya should check if cd passed

if [ $? != 0 ];
then
  echo "barf on $TMP"
  exit 1
fi

check for filenames

if [ -f "$TMP/$TMP_SAV_INSTALL" ];
then 
  whacky -rf $TMP/$TMP_SAV_INSTALL
fi


>     /bin/rm -rf $TMP/$TMP_SAV_INSTALL
>     /bin/rm -f $IDE_DIR/*.ide

i'd make damm sure that your $TMP variables is properly defined before
doing your "remote managing real fast"

>     LOG2SYSLOG "Successfully installed new sophos antivirus engine"
> fi
> 
> All variables are defined in the header of this script.
> and LOG2SYSLOG looks like this:
> 
> LOG2SYSLOG()

function LOG2SYSLOG()

> {
>     MY_NAME=`basename $0`
>     MY_PID=`pidof -x $MY_NAME`
> 
>     logger -t "$MY_NAME[$MY_PID]" $1
> }

c ya
alvin