escript in native scripts?
We are starting to deploy an application to many concurrent
environments, all 'lights-out' operations that use scripts
instead of onsite operators. Tne number of environments
precludes being able to manage them by econsole.
Escript seems to lack the conditional or error flag
syntax to pass run time errors back to parent scripts,
and in some cases doesn't even count things as exception
errors that a production script would want to know about-
such as an application not being installed.
Forte Tech Support told us that at least one other customer
has expressed interest in this capability. But I don't think
there is any definite committment to this from Forte. Their
suggested workaround involves some pretty intricate customer-written
parsing of the stdout redirected from individual escript commands.
Has anyone come up with any ideas they'd be willing to share
on using escript in shell or perl scripts that use standard
conditional testing and error handling?
Stephen Porterfield
Longs
sporterfield@longs.com
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] at [2007-11-25 4:59:41]
At 04:18 AM 7/10/96 -0700, you wrote:
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>We are starting to deploy an application to many concurrent
>environments, all 'lights-out' operations that use scripts
>instead of onsite operators. Tne number of environments
>precludes being able to manage them by econsole.
>
>Escript seems to lack the conditional or error flag
>syntax to pass run time errors back to parent scripts,
>and in some cases doesn't even count things as exception
>errors that a production script would want to know about-
>such as an application not being installed.
>
>Forte Tech Support told us that at least one other customer
>has expressed interest in this capability. But I don't think
>there is any definite committment to this from Forte. Their
>suggested workaround involves some pretty intricate customer-written
>parsing of the stdout redirected from individual escript commands.
>
>Has anyone come up with any ideas they'd be willing to share
>on using escript in shell or perl scripts that use standard
>conditional testing and error handling?
>
The inability to easily detect and program around exceptions in escript as
well as
fscript are serious limitations.
"expect" is a public domain utility you might consider. There is an O'Reilly
book out called "Exploring Expect", by Don Libes
<a href=
"http://www.ora.com/catalog/expect/">http://www.ora.com/catalog/expect/</ a>
>Stephen Porterfield
>Longs
>sporterfield@longs.com
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