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Zyend
Zyend

Reputation: 602

Function in shell script not executed correctly

I write a script to start/stop/restart a custom server application.

When starting the daemon server it should make the following:

#!/bin/sh -e
### BEGIN INIT INFO
...
...
### END INIT INFO

# Start service
pga_server_start()
{
        /opt/pga/server/server -d
}


# Stop  service
pga_server_stop()
{
        PID=`cat /var/lock/pga_server.lock`
        /bin/kill --signal SIGTERM $PID
}

pga_load_excalibur()
{
        is_loaded=`lsmod | grep excalbr`
        echo "Done"


        if [ -z "$is_loaded" ]; then
                /usr/local/bin/excload
                echo "Driver excalibur loaded."
        else
                echo "Driver excalibur already loaded."
        fi
}

case "$1" in
        start)
        pga_load_excalibur
        pga_server_start
        ;;
...
...

Initialy it worked fine. Then I've added the pga_load_excalibur function. Afterward, it does not work anymore. It never returns from the function pga_load_excalibur. It seems that the call to is_loaded=lsmod | grep excalbrnever returns as the subsequentecho` is never printed.

However, if I copy/paste this function in a separate shell script...it works.

But if I launch the starter script manually this way:

/etc/init.d/server start or service server start

it does not work. I'm using a Debian Wheezy 7.9 x64.

Although I'm not a schell script, it looks correct. I don't understand why it does not work when it's embedded into this service starter script.

Please note that I've also tried to replace the grep line with:

is_loaded=$(lsmod | grep excalbr)

But it does not work either. I'm running out of ideas :(

Z.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1338

Answers (1)

Faizers
Faizers

Reputation: 38

What do you get if you run the script in debug mode? try to run it with:

#!/bin/sh -xv

That may give some idea of why it's failing, post the output if you can't figure it out

Upvotes: 1

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