From: Robin Bowes <robin-lists@robinbowes.com>
To: supervision@list.skarnet.org
Subject: Re: Help with chpst -e
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 00:52:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ftu6ba$mh7$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ftu4dp$iiv$1@ger.gmane.org>
Robin Bowes wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is it possible to set vars using "chpst -e" and then use those vars
> later in the same command line?
>
> e.g.
>
> mkdir env
> echo dnslog > env/LOGUSER
> echo /var/log/dnscache > env/LOGDIR
>
> Then in run:
> #!/bin/sh
> exec chpst -e ./env -u $LOGUSER svlogd -tt $LOGDIR
>
> I realise that this specific example won't work - $LOGUSER and $LOGDIR
> will both retain the values they had when the script was launched.
>
> Is what I describe above possible?
Answer: yes it is.
This works:
#!/bin/sh
exec \
chpst -e ./env sh -c '
chpst -u ${LOGUSER} \
svlogd -tt ${LOGDIR}
'
LOGUSER and LOGDIR are set in ./env
R.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-13 23:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-13 23:19 Robin Bowes
2008-04-13 23:52 ` Robin Bowes [this message]
2008-04-14 8:34 ` Andras Korn
2008-04-14 8:40 ` Andras Korn
2008-04-14 13:38 ` Robin Bowes
2008-04-14 13:48 ` Andras Korn
2008-04-14 14:16 ` Charlie Brady
2008-04-14 14:31 ` Robin Bowes
2008-04-14 16:41 ` Andras Korn
2008-04-14 21:00 ` Robin Bowes
2008-04-14 21:09 ` Charlie Brady
2008-04-14 21:16 ` Robin Bowes
2008-04-14 22:17 ` Joan Picanyol i Puig
2008-04-14 22:18 ` Andras Korn
2008-04-14 23:05 ` Robin Bowes
2008-04-15 4:27 ` Andras Korn
2008-04-15 12:10 ` Robin Bowes
2008-04-15 16:31 ` Generic logging run script Robin Bowes
2008-04-15 16:33 ` Help with chpst -e Andras Korn
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