Sqlplus returns 0/SUCCESS on CONNECT failure

Question

Consider ..
$ sqlplus /nolog <<EOF
connect sys as foobar
EOF$ echo $?
0
sqlplus returns success on a connect failure. I have tried to coax it to return non-0 exit code using
sqlplus /nolog<<EOF
whenever sqlerror exit 1
whenever oserror exit 1
connect sys as foobar
EOFBut this doesn't work, looks like sqlplus disconnects after the connect failure and both the 'whenever' clauses don't fire.
How can I get sqlplus to report a failure exit code. I understand I can parse the response from sqlplus, but that is not desirable at the moment.
-srp

Answer 1

srp
I wonder if this is port specific? I only have access to Windows at the moment so can't tell.
From the docs, it looks like expected behaviour; WHENEVER SQLERROR only fires if a SQL or PL/SQL fails - and CONNECT doesn't really count as SQL.
A workaround would be to explicitly EXIT with a success code != 0 when you safely get to the end of your script. Then you could assume that 0 means a failed login.
Alternatively, you can create a marker file when you successfully login; if the file isn't there, then you didn't log in:
rm -rf /tmp/mydiagfile
sqlplus /nolog <<EOF
    connect sys as foobar
    host touch /tmp/mydiagfile
    SQL statements
    EXIT
EOF
result=$?
if [ result -eq 0 ]
then
   # did we get in
   if [ ! -e /tmp/mydiagfile]
   then
      # login must have failed
      echo ERROR - ... etc
   fi
fiAny help? At least it's simpler than parsing the log file...
HTH
Regards Nigel