Rob van der Heij wrote:
On 10/11/05, Carsten Otte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I was just suggesting that this problem can easily be solved in scripts
outside vmcp. I agree that my proposal may require the script author to
think about his best way to retrieve that output - but because <me>
Would it be terribly ugly to have a command that outputs the CP return
code for the most recently issued vmcp command? The would avoid the
Most recently issued by whom?
Where would it be stored?
issues with one-byte return code and separate the Linux return code
from the CP response.
#! /bin/sh
vmcp MSG ROB Testing
rc = `vmcprc`
Nit: if this is a shell script, no spaces allowed.
if $rc = 54 ; then
s/=/-eq/ for numbers
echo User not logged on
fi
I guess the only safe place to store the vmrc is in a guaranteed unique
file. So both parties agree on its name, the name has to be provided by
whatever calls vmcp.
We're getting very close to my very crude hack which does in fact
provide a guaranteed unique file.
I'm not keen on my hack - it's bound to confuse lots of readers - but
this is quite straightforward:
F=$(mktemp /tmp/${USER}-XXXXXX)
vmcp MSG ROB Testing 4>${F}
and then the script reads and analyses ${F}, and then removes it.
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Cheers
John
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