dyer@arktouros.mit.edu (Steve Dyer) (02/24/89)
This may be a case of RTFM, but I've just confronted AIX in person
after many months of ACIS 4.2 and AOS 4.3, so be gentle.
Briefly, in attempting to port a large software product whose
installation scripts use the C-Shell, I'm finding that most of
them, when running under AIX, just exit without executing any commands.
Most of them begin with the convention "#! /bin/csh" which, although
probably not interpreted directly by AIX, still should run OK
(either with the '#' acting as a semaphore as in the old days or
directly, by invoking 'csh scriptname'). However, they don't,
and "csh -v" and "csh -x" don't print out anything before exiting,
either.
I don't have a clue as to what is going wrong. Any ideas?
Send mail and I will summarize.
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Steve Dyer
dyer@arktouros.mit.edu
dyer@spdcc.com aka ...!{harvard,linus,ima,m2c,rayssd}!spdcc!dyerdyer@arktouros.MIT.EDU (Steve Dyer) (02/25/89)
In article <9422@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> dyer@arktouros.mit.edu (Steve Dyer) writes: >Briefly, in attempting to port a large software product whose >installation scripts use the C-Shell, I'm finding that most of >them, when running under AIX, just exit without executing any commands. Just a few more details: we're running AIX 2.2.1, and the problem can be better described as C-shell scripts invoked by their absolute pathname work fine, but single component names fail silently. I.e., if the file /tmp/foo contains #!/bin/csh echo foo and is mode 755, owner root, the following all fail: cd /tmp foo ./foo csh foo but either of these succeed: /tmp/foo csh /tmp/foo --- Steve Dyer dyer@arktouros.mit.edu dyer@spdcc.com aka ...!{harvard,linus,ima,m2c,rayssd}!spdcc!dyer
sauer@auschs.UUCP (Charlie Sauer) (02/25/89)
In article <9440@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>, dyer@arktouros.MIT.EDU (Steve Dyer) writes: > In article <9422@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> dyer@arktouros.mit.edu (Steve Dyer) writes: > >Briefly, in attempting to port a large software product whose > >installation scripts use the C-Shell, I'm finding that most of > >them, when running under AIX, just exit without executing any commands. > > Just a few more details: we're running AIX 2.2.1, and the problem can > be better described as C-shell scripts invoked by their absolute > pathname work fine, but single component names fail silently. > > I.e., if the file /tmp/foo contains > #!/bin/csh > echo foo > > and is mode 755, owner root, the following all fail: > cd /tmp > foo > ./foo > csh foo > > but either of these succeed: > > /tmp/foo > csh /tmp/foo Steve, I missed your initial posting. I see it is on emx, which provides my feed, so I wonder how I don't have it. In any case, I've tried your example on 2.2.1 with update 1721 applied and don't see the problem, i.e., I created your example as described, ran it as both root and guest and all 10 times (2 id's, 5 invocations) produced "foo" as desired. I don't know offhand if csh was changed in any of the updates to 2.2.1 (my guess is that you got 1722 when you got 2.2.1, but I don't know, of course). sum -r on my csh gives 16773 197 /bin/csh If you have a different binary, we can try to explore it from that point of view, otherwise, I assume this is symptomatic of other problems. I use a few csh scripts daily, some invoked by absolute path, e.g., /u/bin/errmail: #!/bin/csh set month = `date +%m` set day = `date +%d` set year = `date +%y` (errpt -s ${month}${day}0000${year} \ |& grep -v Diskette \ |& grep -v tty \ |& grep -v SNA \ |& grep -v Tokenring_DLC;\ (echo 'Device Mounted on total free used ifree used';\ df| grep /dev/hd))\ |& mail -s `uname -n` root invoked at 2359 by cron, and, of course, which.csh lifted from 4.3/RT, which is just invoked as which, and have not observed any such problems. Charlie -- C.H. Sauer IBM Advanced Workstations Div. !'s: cs.utexas.edu!ibmaus!sauer 11400 Burnet Road, D75/802 @'s: @CS.UTEXAS.EDU:sauer@ibmaus.uucp Austin, Texas 78758-2502 !&@: ibmaus!sauer@CS.UTEXAS.EDU (512) 823-3692 vnet: SAUER at AUSVM6
skipster@skybird.UUCP (Skip Coppola/50000) (02/26/89)
I want to confirm that 4.3 will work on the 6150 just fine. AIX 2.2 isn't all that bad though, and you should really try it first. Andrew and some other things are only BSD, but more is available under AIX, including support. Skip Coppola IBM AIX & AI Consultant uunet!skybird!skipster
dyer@arktouros.MIT.EDU (Steve Dyer) (02/28/89)
In article <1840@auschs.UUCP> sauer@auschs.UUCP (Charlie Sauer) writes: >I wonder how I don't have it. In any case, I've tried your example on 2.2.1 >with update 1721 applied and don't see the problem, i.e., I created your >example as described, ran it as both root and guest and all 10 times (2 id's, >5 invocations) produced "foo" as desired. I don't know offhand if csh was >changed in any of the updates to 2.2.1 (my guess is that you got 1722 when >you got 2.2.1, but I don't know, of course). sum -r on my csh gives > >16773 197 /bin/csh > Sum -r on my csh binary gives: 26940 197 /bin/csh I'm afraid I don't know much about what patches were or were not applied or supplied. Our diskettes (and uname) are labelled 2.2.1; I do not believe there were any explicit patch disks. It's obvious that at least with CSH, probably others, there is some divergence here. With any luck, it should explain the problem. --- Steve Dyer dyer@arktouros.mit.edu dyer@spdcc.com aka ...!{harvard,linus,ima,m2c,rayssd}!spdcc!dyer