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by **Jan Klaverstij** » Fri, 13 Sep 2002 17:46:01

I have a daemon and a script (3rd party) that are being used to integrate
applications on NT and AIX. The daemon on aix listens to requests from the
nt environment and executes arbitrary commands, in this case mentioned
script. The daemon is commercial software; I have no control over its
internals. Now the weirdest thing happens.

Consider the following snippet from my script:

wsetemsg $1 $2
rc=$?
...
exit $rc

If I run this script from the shell it works as expected, but when run by
the daemon $? (and thus $rc) is always zero. I tried other variations, like

wsetemsg && rc=1 || rc=0

but sofar no luck. Again, all's well when running from the shell but when
run from the daemon I always get succes, even when wsetemsg fails. I tested
with other commands than wsetemsg with the same results.

This is stumping me and I hope someone wil be able to help. I am game for
both workarounds and structural solutions. What we are trying to achieve is
a better guarding of this integration. As man failures as possible should be
notified.

Regards,
- Jan.

Detail: this concerns integration between Tivoli/Enterprise Console 3.6 and
Tivoli Service Desk 6.0.

by **Nicholas Drone** » Fri, 13 Sep 2002 23:20:15

> I have a daemon and a script (3rd party) that are being used to integrate
> applications on NT and AIX. The daemon on aix listens to requests from the
> nt environment and executes arbitrary commands, in this case mentioned
> script. The daemon is commercial software; I have no control over its
> internals. Now the weirdest thing happens.
> Consider the following snippet from my script:
> wsetemsg $1 $2
> rc=$?
> ...
> exit $rc
> If I run this script from the shell it works as expected, but when run by
> the daemon $? (and thus $rc) is always zero. I tried other variations, like
> wsetemsg && rc=1 || rc=0

If wsetemsg expects a controlling terminal, it will never
succeed when running as a daemon. (By "daemon," of course,
I assume you mean "started by init or at or cron.")

Regards,

Nicholas

by **Jan Klaverstij** » Sat, 14 Sep 2002 16:14:33

> > I have a daemon and a script (3rd party) that are being used to
integrate
> > applications on NT and AIX. The daemon on aix listens to requests from
the
> > nt environment and executes arbitrary commands, in this case mentioned
> > script. The daemon is commercial software; I have no control over its
> > internals. Now the weirdest thing happens.

> > Consider the following snippet from my script:

> > wsetemsg $1 $2
> > rc=$?
> > ...
> > exit $rc

> > If I run this script from the shell it works as expected, but when run
by
> > the daemon $? (and thus $rc) is always zero. I tried other variations,
like

> > wsetemsg && rc=1 || rc=0

> If wsetemsg expects a controlling terminal, it will never
> succeed when running as a daemon. (By "daemon," of course,
> I assume you mean "started by init or at or cron.")

It is not specific for wsetemsg. As mentioned I tried other commands. To be
more specific: the commands work well under normal circumstances, even
wsetemsg that by the way doesn't need a terminal. It's just that I want to
act upon errors, but $? is always zero no matter what. So if I test with ls
instead of wsetemsg the results are similar. The daemon is a little program
called nsmqueryd that listens to a port and executes commands requested by
clients connecting over the network.

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> Regards,

> Nicholas

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