RMAN errors sent to shell script calling RMAN sequence?

Hello,
I have a Korn shell script run on Solaris as the root user that launches RMAN sequences similar to this one:
#!/bin/ksh
su - oracle -c "export ORACLE_SID=ORCL; rman target / << !
<rman sequence>
I am wondering if there is a way to catch the RMAN errors in the shell script?
If I call SQLplus instead of RMAN, I can use "whenever sqlerror exit sql.sqlcode" and I will retrieve the error code in the shell script from $? - can I do such a thing with RMAN?
Thank you,
Adrian

You could capture the return code *$?* from your RMAN script and if it returns anything other than 0, then you could grep the RMAN log for errors and/or query
V$RMAN_OUTPUT after the RMAN script executes.

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scp_file_to_dbs.sh does a secure copy. Copying the file fo anther directory on the same server.
ftp_file_from_apps.sh
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
#!/bin/bash
sftp applprod@<host.domain>:/<source_directory>/$1
/<destination_directory>/$2
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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begin
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end;
ftp_file_from_apps.sh error:
ORA-27369: job of type EXECUTABLE failed with exit code: No such file or directory
scp_file_to_dbs.sh error:
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I tripple checked my <directory_of_script>.
Please help.
Regards
John

Hi,
What Paul means is that you should not be using
job_action=>
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job_action=>
'/<directory_of_script>/scp_file_to_dbs.sh',
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Hi Sean,
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Hi,
Posting this in case anyone else find it.
The key error here is "execve: Exec format error" .
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- that the shell script begins with a hashbang line - e.g. #!/bin/sh (I suspect this is the problem)
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Hope this helps,
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I need to manage 2 diferente class of errors :
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Operating Syste Error(e.g. No Datbase conection ORA-1017,etc) my shell its KSH.
Please can you help me how can I manage then?
this my alternative but is not correct ;
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Best Regards
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user5647282 wrote:
I need to manage 2 diferente class of errors :
Oracle Errors(produced in compilation time) and
Operating Syste Error(e.g. No Datbase conection ORA-1017,etc) my shell its KSH.
Please can you help me how can I manage then?
this my alternative but is not correct ;
#creating conexion with sql
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there is no "urgent" here.
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Hi DBAS,
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passwrd.pw like this
abc@abc
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error :
line 2: syntax error at line 11: `for' unmatched
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Could you explain the reason for the for loop and connection attempts while incrementing var $i?
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872305 wrote:
Hi,
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Last edited by drtebi (2015-02-02 23:41:39)

That worked, thanks!
I have to assume that veracrypt caused the "new interfaces" message then?
I didn't try the redirecting to stdout at first because I thought if I do that, I would not get my "question" -- but that was of course wrong, since I am not redirecting the "read" command.
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Thanks again for all the commentary and discussion; I am grateful for the assistance.
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Hi Gurus,
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I had done the below testing
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When i execute the Test cases with , dbms_scheduler Run_job procedure, Test1 is success but Test2 was failed
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Error:
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First of all let's look at your environment ... a totally unpatched version of software that is so old it is in desupport mode. You should upgrade to a fully supported version but, if you can't, at least to 10.2.0.5.
That said without seeing any of your code, or a listing showing permissions on the directory and files, there is insufficient information from which to help you.
Please post ALL information required for us to understand what you are doing an your environment.
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<skip len='1'/>
<str name='homedir' trim='true' term=';'/>
<skip len='1'/>
<str name='shell' trim='true' term=';'/>
<skip len='1'/>
<str name='accountId' trim='true' term=';'/>
<skip len='1'/>
<str name='uid' trim='true' term=';'/>
<skip len='1'/>
<str name='uidnumber' trim='true' term=';'/>
<skip len='1'/>
<str name='groups' multi='true' delim=',' trim='true' term=';'/>
<skip len='1'/>
<str name='hostnames' multi='true' delim=',' trim='true' term=';'/>
<skipToEol/>
<MemberObjectGroups>
<ObjectRef type='ObjectGroup' id='#ID#Top' name='Top'/>
</MemberObjectGroups>
</AttrParse>
Also, SUN is telling me that the exit code problem (#1) may be fixed in sp2 for 7.0, I'm waiting to find out when it will be released.
I still don't have an answer for #3.

Problem with backtick replacing apostroph in applescript/shell script

I've got a script that appears to be using a backtick instead of an apostrophe which is causing an error in my shell script. For the life of me I can't seem to find where the error is being generated?
The script is attached below. I'm using Exiftool, an app that writes metadata to image files. The shell script
set cmd to "exiftool -CopyrightNotice=" & exifCopyright & " " & thisFilePath & ""
set theResult to do shell script cmd
works fine but the following shell script
set cmd to "exiftool" & space & authorStr & " " & thisFilePath & ""
set theResult to do shell script cmd
returns the error "sh: -c: line 0: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `''
sh: -c: line 1: syntax error: unexpected end of file" number 2. The code in the event log in applescript editor looks exactly the same to me but one fails in the shell script.
It has been suggested by the developer of Exiftool, Phil Harvey, that there is a backtick in the second shell script. I read somewhere in the applescript docs that this is due to a change in OS 10.6? Any suggestions on how to fix this?
Thanks.
Pedro

Yea, the authorStr value has a space like "Joe Smith"
Then you need to use quoted form of this string, too:
set cmd to "exiftool " & quoted form of authorStr & space & thisFilePath
although the format looks wrong to me - shouldn't there be some kind of switch, such as "-author=' before it?
You have to consider how you'd enter this at the command line to work out how best to translate it to AppleScript. For example, if the command line version were:
exiftool -author='John Doe' /path/to/some.jpg
you can see the quotes are around the name, not the entire -author switch. In this case you should be looking at something like:
set authorStr to "John Doe"
set theFilePath to "/path/to/some.jpg"
set theCmd to "exiftool -author=" & quoted form of authorStr & space & quoted form of theFilePath
Now you could, of course, use quoted form when you create the variables (e.g. set authorStr to quoted form of "John Doe"), but that may screw you up later on if/when you try to use authorStr in some other way, so I find it best to use quoted form only where it's needed.

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