Re: [sqr-users] RE: Call System

[Dattatraya Shetty <datta_shetty@yahoo.com>]

Bruce, 
   Wills has the explianation in the mail,it depends on who the new
shell is spwaned to execute the Process. Hence the Need to specify and
absolute path to the mkdir command. A work around could to to wrap the
command in a Shell Script and execute the Shell script with a command
to run your .profile in there, but that is too much work for a single
command. Will's method is much better. 

HTH. 
Datta. 
--- Bruce Burnell <Bruce.Burnell@sfgov.org> wrote:
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> That did it.  I still don't understand why environment variables from
> my
> .profile were not carried to the child shell, but it was a one-time
> fixit
> program, so I won't worry about it.
> Thanks,
> Bruce
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> Bruce,
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> When you execute a command from within an sqr it executes the command
> in a
> spawned shell which is probably not inheriting the environment
> variables of
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> the calling program.  At this point I do not think you're dealing
> with a
> permissions issue.  Find the path on mkdir (which mkdir or whence
> mkdir
> should work) and place that entire command in place of your single
> mkdir
> command and see if that helps.
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> hope this helps.
> 
> peace,
> clark 'the dragon' willis
> 
> 
> PSA: Salary <> Slavery.  If you earn a salary, your employer is
> renting
> your
> services for 40 hours a week, not purchasing your soul.  Your time is
> the
> only real finite asset that you have, and once used it can never be
> recovered, so don't waste it by giving it away.
> 
> "Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and
> only you
> can determine how it will be spent.  Be careful lest you let other
> people
> spend it for you."
> 
> Carl Sandburg
> (1878 - 1967)
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> ----Original Message Follows----
> 
> I have an SQR that I am running from the UNIX command line.  I have a
> number off call system statements, and some of them are working.  The
> following sequence if bahaving oddly:
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>      let $command_line  = 'mkdir -p ' || $target
>       show 'command is '
>       show $command_line
>       call system  using  $command_line #status
> 
> The command line that displays, when copied from the log and pasted
> into
> the UNIX command line, exeucutes as expected.  When the SQR exucutes
> the
> command, I get the following:
> 
> mkdir:  not found
> 
> I do not believe that this is permissions because I execute the SQR
> from
> the UNIX prompt, then execute the pasted command from the same UNIX
> prompt.
> So the SQR execution has the same permissions and environment
> variables.
> The value of #status is 127.  I have other call  system commands is
> the
> same SQR that execute as expected.
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.
> 
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