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RE: RE: RE: I have a puzzling situation

Posted By: John Adamski
Date: Tuesday, 6 November 2012, at 3:49 p.m.

In Response To: Re: RE: RE: I have a puzzling situation (JACQUES RENAUT)

Jacques

It probably been 5-6 years since I last used tusc so will take me a little to clean out the cobwebs in my brain. But I do have a test/DR system I can use that usually only has me on it.

I see there are a number of other replies so will go check them out. I hope to have time tomorrow to figure out tusc and try your suggestion.

John

-----Original Message-----
From: ids-bounces@iiug.org [mailto:ids-bounces@iiug.org] On Behalf Of JACQUES RENAUT
Sent: Monday, November 05, 2012 1:11 PM
To: ids@iiug.org
Subject: Re: RE: RE: I have a puzzling situation [28704]

Original post:

Jim,

Here is the code (sql) using in my test procedure:

drop procedure testsysfail;

create procedure testsysfail()
returning char(32);

on exception in (-668)

return "Failed, error 668";
end exception;

SYSTEM " /tmp/test.csh";

return "succeded";
end procedure;

grant execute on testsysfail to public;

It is based on the production procedure, I just kept the few lines I needed that I thought to get a good equivalent procedure. As you can see the SYSTEM line only has SYSTEM " /tmp/test.csh"

And this is the content of the test.csh script:

#!/bin/csh -f
##
printenv | sort >& /tmp/test.log

id -rg >>& /tmp/test.log

id -ru >>& /tmp/test.log

exit 0

I reran the procedure as both users and get the same results one works one doesn't.

I than changed the SYSTEM command to be like your suggestion below "
/usr/bin/csh -f -v -x -c /tmp/test.sh >& /tmp/test.log ". I get the 668 error on the user that normally works. I also changed the SYSTEM command to go to test2.log, still get the 668 error. Then I did a which csh and changed the SYSTEM command to use /bin.csh and same results.

If I'm understanding your logic, running csh in the SYSTEM should have forced a sub-shel - well that doesn't seem to working. Which might imply one user is getting a sub-shell and the other not. But I can't find any setup that is different between the two users.

john

<stuff removed>

Response:

Here's an idea you might try. Assuming you have a test instance where you can control the activity, you could try using HP-UX tusc utility. You would want to tusc the adm vp (it's the vp that would be forking and exec'ing the system command for the sql system command). There's a follow fork option that you would want to use (along with others probably) so perhaps you could use the tusc output to see if you might spot differences in what each user session (the working vs non-working) was doing as the OS level or if there was some error in in some of the output that might narrow in on some problem. You'd have to run the tusc command as root, and again you'd want to do it on a system with limited access so the adm vp wouldn't be doing tons of stuff (so it's easier to tell the good output vs bad output). I'll go ahead and warn you the adm vp will generate a decent amount of stuff for signal handling and alarm/time output on it's own, but you should also be able to spot where it does it's fork and then exec of the shell for the system command and if you follow the fork, get output for what you system command is doing.

Jacques Renaut
IBM Informix Advanced Support
APD Team.

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