Setperms Problems

[Harry K. Whacker]

yeah I Have been Having the same knid of problems as this is with the 
logging fixing things. whenever I have a problem i just ad logging in at 
radnum places and it seems to fix it (For a while). Does anyone know what it 
causes this???
its really annoying! I agree with TIM: what the Crap??

Kindly,
HK Whacker


On 5/6/05, Tim Fischer <tim.fischer at trinitytransport.com> wrote:
> 
> Bob Stockler wrote:
> 
> >Tim Fischer wrote (on Fri, May 06, 2005 at 12:16:24PM -0400):
> >
> >| I'm having some trouble with setperms - basically, it's starting, then
> >| hanging. Here's what shows up on screen:
> >|
> >| Checking for user 'filepro'...
> >|
> >| User 'filepro' found, proceeding normally...
> >|
> >|
> >| Setting permissions and ownerships for filePro programs
> >| located in /u/appl/fp
> >|
> >|
> >| Setting permissions and ownerships for filePro menus
> >| located in /u/appl/fp/menus
> >|
> >|
> >| Setting permissions and ownerships for filePro data files
> >| located in /u/appl/filepro
> >|
> >| -n .
> >|
> >| Then it sits here until I kill it. Has anyone seen this before? Is
> >| there a flag I can use that will run setperms with logging enabled?
> >|
> >| I'm on Solaris 9 using FP 5.0.13D4.
> >
> >Edit setperms so it's second line is:
> >
> > set -xv
> >
> >Do you have the program "script" (that copies the standard output
> >and standard error output to a file) on your system? If so, execute
> >it. then execute setperms, exit script by typing <Ctrl>+d and then
> >look in the file "typescript" to see if you see why it's hanging.
> >
> >If you don't have "script", execute setperms (having made the above
> >edit to it) and the part of its code where it hangs should be visible
> >on your screen.
> >
> >Bob
> >
> >
> >
> >
> 
> Bob,
> 
> Thank you, this helped alot. However, this brings up a much bigger
> issue that doesn't make any sense. You described the "set -xv" as a
> logging mechanism, which is exactly what happened. Why then, would this
> actually fix the problem? No, I didn't do anything else other than put
> the "set -xv" into the second line of the code and the issue failed to
> replicate.
> 
> The scary thing is that this isn't the first time I've seen this. I've
> had many instances where my code wouldn't work (though it looked like it
> should) and when I put a simple "system echo" in to my script to see
> what was going on, it started working. A lot of my scripts still
> include logging to /dev/null simply because if that's not there, it
> doesn't work.
> 
> What the crap is going on?
> 
> --
> Tim Fischer
> 
> 
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