[Veritas-bu] bpstart_notify tweaking

Hi

Don't forget that most Unix systems have a max exit code of 256  and in the
range 0-256.
There is no guarantee that values outsid of the range 0 -256 , when given
as argument to the exit statement/system call,  will return the value you
gave it  - the results could be unpredictable.

A quote from  -  Learning the Korn Shell. By Bill Rosenblatt; First
Edition, June 1993. O'Reilly

"Every UNIX command, whether it comes from source code in C, some other
language, or a shell script/function, returns an integer code to its
calling process - the shell in this case-when it finishes. This is called
the exit status. 0 is usually the "OK" exit status, while anything else (1
to 255) usually denotes an error"


Regards
Jim McDonald

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"Donaldson, Mark" <Mark.Donaldson AT experianems DOT com>@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
on 01/07/2003 02:58:35 AM

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Subject:    RE: [Veritas-bu] bpstart_notify tweaking




You can exit any unix script with a non-zero return code to create an
"error".

Just add a number to the "exit" command at the bottom, ie: "exit 1".

...and you'll exit with a return code of 1.  A non-zero return code from
bpstart should prevent the backup from running.  Note, this will result in
an error code for "bpstart_notify failed.".

-M

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Subject: [Veritas-bu] bpstart_notify tweaking

Hello all!

I read in the NT guild that there is a way of playing with the
bpstart.notify scripts using a file named bpstart_notify.res and %0-%6
status that you can use.

Is there anything I can do on the UNIX side ?

I mean is there anyway i can make the bpstart_notify script exit with error
code so the backup wont run ?

Thanks

Shahar.

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[Veritas-bu] bpstart_notify tweaking - MAX exit code 256
