Hi Tim:
Thanks a lot for suggeting "exec" in my shell script. It really works
under both shell and PBS; however, the running was just terminated right
after "exec ${DIR}/lx_mapman" was excutated. I am not sure why this
happens:-(
Hailiang
> Hello Hailiang,
>
> On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 10:01:04PM -0400, Hailiang Zhang wrote:
>> Hi there:
>>
>> I downloaded the binary files of UPPSALA-mapman and they run smoothly
>> under linux. However, when I write it into a shell script and run under
>> PBS queue, it cannot be excuated. A simple test turned out to be:
>>
>> (1)
>> *******
>> [Linux] ./lx_mapman ----->works
>>
>> (2)
>> *******
>> [Linux]source ${ABSDIR}/lx_mapman ----->-bash:ELF: command not found
> I do not know the PBS syntax, but this line cannot work: the bash command
> 'source' instructs bash to read in the content of the next argument and
> execute
> it as though it were a shell-script. That's the reason for the error
> message:
> The first word in a linux-binary is 'ELF' and that's not a bash command
> (luckily, who knows what might have happened if the rest of the binary had
> been
> interpreted by bash).
>
> Try replacing 'source' with 'exec'. If PBS forces you to have the 'source'
> keyword there (which I would find odd) create a wrapper script 'mapman.sh'
> into
> which you write 'exec ${ABSDIR}/lx_mapman $*'.
>
> Tim
>
>>
>> It seems that only (2) can be directly implemented under PBS
>> environment.
>> I am wondering whether there is a way to circumstance this problem.
>>
>> Best Regards, Hailiang
>
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