this is totaly a hack but you could pipe the action to an output file and
then read that file in for results couldnt you?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "MJPinckard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Witango" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, July 02, 2004 6:26 PM
Subject: Witango-Talk: can't get results of external action


> I've been banging my head against this for hours, and hope someone can
help.
>
> I'm calling a shell script using an external action. I cannot seem to
> get the output of the shell script to return to Witango so it can be
> evaluated in the resultset. Server debugging always shows the following:
> *[External Action]* *[1112]* check_for_mask
> *[Query]* *[1113]* /TOU/masks/checkMask2.sh; Parameters:
> tariffID=430.txt;
> *[External Action]* *[1113]* Forking process
> *[External Action]* *[1125]* Waiting on the child process
> *[External Action]* *[1226]* Error: No child processes
> *[External Action]* *[1226]* Waiting done
> *[ActionResults]* *[1231]*
> *[External Action]* *[1234]* Complete
> *[Changed Vars]* *[1234]* request$maskPresent=;
>
>
> I know that the "430.txt" file is present and readable by Witango, and
> when I test it on the command line the script returns the name of the
> file. Permissions are set correctly for Witango to execute the script. I
> have several other scripts running (although they don't need to return
> results), and this script is set up identically to the functional ones,
> so I'm reasonably certain it is being called. The variable maskPresent
> is being set to @@resultset.
>
> Here is the actual script.
>
> #! /bin/sh
> echo `ls | grep $tariffID`
>
> How can I get the results to come back to Witango? Server is OS X
> (10.3.4) Server running Witango 5.0.1.062 Chimera (Mac OS X)
>
> thanks for any help you can give.
>
> Maggie Pinckard
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