Command exit status 'success' and 'failure'

thomas2004ch · 07-03-2013, 01:08 AM

Hi,

In the RedHat-Linux I can set the command exit status 'success' and 'failure' in the bash-script.

But when I do this in Solaris I got error like:

Code:

success: command not found

I wonder if one can do this in Solaris?

evo2 · 07-03-2013, 01:15 AM

Hi,

I'm not sure what you mean. I'm not aware of any command called "success" on any RHEL based system. If you want a shell script to exit and indicate that in ran to completion successfully you can exit with 0 status. eg

Code:

#!/bin/sh
echo 'Hello, world!'
exit 0

Evo2

thomas2004ch · 07-03-2013, 02:06 AM

Sorry I've forgot something. In RedHat Linux I have to add a line in the script as follow:

Code:

...
/etc/init.d/functions
...

So I can use the 'success' and 'failure'. The 'success' will output an OK. The 'failure' will output a FAILED.

I am not sure are there such functions in Solaris?

evo2 · 07-03-2013, 02:34 AM

Hi,

ohh, /etc/init.d/functions... I don't know if such functions are defined anywhere on a Solaris system. I guess there is nothing stopping you from adding them yourself.

Evo2.

David the H. · 07-03-2013, 04:25 PM

Well, that explains it, doesn't it? The success/failure commands are being supplied by external functions. Perhaps if you simply transported them from RedHat to Solaris they might work there too. Although it's more likely that they would need some modification first.

BTW, "exit status" is always a numerical value; 0 for success and >0 for any other result. Likely the functions only do something like translate them into textual strings anyway.