Re: Shell Fails on One Machine

2016-05-05 Thread Bob Sneidar
I managed Apple Servers for years. Would not be the first time that a mount point went south, and when it does, yeah you get a lot of wierdness. It used to be you had to go to the folder that contained the dynamic links to the mount points and delete the bad ones. Now when you reboot it flushes

Re: Shell Fails on One Machine

2016-05-05 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami
Rebooting the machine and remounting that remote volume works. There was some bizzare “version” of the remote machine mounted invisibly… because even after ejecting the one from the desk top in Terminal I could still see that volume mounted. I suspect someone logged into the server once, then

Re: Shell Fails on One Machine

2016-05-05 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami
Well it turns out that shell works on that unit. But we are getting some bizarre paths to the remote volume I am trying to address… so this is not an LC problem.. it’s actually an old problem we’ve had on the LAN here when talking to big 50 Terrabyte server in the other room. If I do (on my mac

Re: Shell Fails on One Machine

2016-05-05 Thread Bob Sneidar
> On May 5, 2016, at 11:07 , Bob Sneidar wrote: > > What your shell funtion would look like in this example is: > > get shell (open "/Volumes/Chola1/WWW/public_html") > > Might need to be: > get shell ("open /Volumes/Chola1/WWW/public_html") > And why are you using the shell when Livecode has

Re: Shell Fails on One Machine

2016-05-05 Thread Bob Sneidar
What your shell funtion would look like in this example is: get shell (open "/Volumes/Chola1/WWW/public_html") Might need to be: get shell ("open /Volumes/Chola1/WWW/public_html") > On May 4, 2016, at 21:51 , Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami > wrote: > > New iMac with clean install of El Capitan >

Re: Shell Fails on One Machine

2016-05-04 Thread Thierry Douez
> New iMac with clean install of El Capitan > > But from inside my app > > Put "/Volumes/Chola1/WWW/public_html” into pPath > put ("open " & quote & pPath & quote) into tShell > get shell (tShell) > > The result is “1” > > Any clues? > > ​Hi, What happens when you do this: put shell("open -h")

Shell Fails on One Machine

2016-05-04 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami
New iMac with clean install of El Capitan My stack using shell scripts are failing on the shell calls. The normal debug procedure: Open terminal # test your commands here first % open /Volumes/Chola1/WWW/public_html Works as expected.. The folder is opened on the desktop But from inside my