Re: [Owfs-developers] Exit code

2011-02-13 Thread Alessio Sangalli
On 02/12/2011 07:24 AM, Paul Alfille wrote: > You are right. There is no RETURN VALUE section of the man pages. > > What would you suggest? 0 for good, obviously, and 1 for error? Yes this is absolutely reasonable; I am not sure if there would be the need for "finer" error reporting, like differ

Re: [Owfs-developers] Exit code

2011-02-12 Thread Paul Alfille
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 4:28 PM, Alessio Sangalli wrote: > Hi, I am using the owshell family of commands, usually from scripts; I > usually capture the output of the command into a variable: > > sometimes for whatever reason - owread fails, maybe because owserver is > not up (yet) or similar. > >

Re: [Owfs-developers] Exit code

2011-02-11 Thread alesan
> > -Original Message- > From: Alessio Sangalli [mailto:ale...@manoweb.com] > Sent: Saturday, 12 February 2011 2:17 PM > To: OWFS (One-wire file system) discussion and help > Subject: Re: [Owfs-developers] Exit code > > On 02/11/2011 02:14 PM, Robert Conway wrote: >

Re: [Owfs-developers] Exit code

2011-02-11 Thread Robert Conway
wfs-developers] Exit code On 02/11/2011 02:14 PM, Robert Conway wrote: > I use owread in my bash scripts, as I log in rrdtools if I find the > data is not available I set the variable to "U" and send a message to > nohup. I test for no data returned and if the value is great

Re: [Owfs-developers] Exit code

2011-02-11 Thread Alessio Sangalli
On 02/11/2011 02:14 PM, Robert Conway wrote: > I use owread in my bash scripts, as I log in rrdtools if I find the data is > not available I set the variable to "U" and send a message to nohup. I test > for no data returned and if the value is greater than my upper range. i.e. > for DS18B20 if i

Re: [Owfs-developers] Exit code

2011-02-11 Thread Robert Conway
PHtest ] || [ $PHtest -gt 8 ]; then echo "`date` PH reading error $PH" >>/var/scripts/nohup.out PH="U" fi -Original Message- From: Alessio Sangalli [mailto:ale...@manoweb.com] Sent: Saturday, 12 February 2011 8:28 AM To: OWFS (One-wire file system) discussion

[Owfs-developers] Exit code

2011-02-11 Thread Alessio Sangalli
Hi, I am using the owshell family of commands, usually from scripts; I usually capture the output of the command into a variable: temperature=$(owread /26.79D89100/temperature) sometimes for whatever reason - owread fails, maybe because owserver is not up (yet) or similar. How do I detect