Re: Hook Scripts; How to Send Message to User?

David's response explained the best way to solve this, but for
completeness I wanted to point to the error in your original script.

On Jun 9, 2009, at 10:17, Tom Browder wrote:

> # Check that the incoming files meet name requirements.
> /path/to/check-allowed-names.pl $1 $2 > /dev/null 2>&1

">/dev/null 2>&1" is equivalent to "1>/dev/null 2>&1" and means "send
anything that would have gone to file handle 1 (stdout) to the null
device (i.e. throw it away), and then redirect file handle 2 (stderr)
to go to the same place as file handle 1 (i.e. also the null device).
So both stdout and stderr output from the perl script is being
discarded. If this is what you wanted then this is fine.

> if [ $? != '0' ] ; then
> cat /path/to/msg 2>&1
> exit 1
> fi

"2>&1" means "send anything that would have gone to file handle 2
(stderr) to file handle 1 (stdout) instead." This is probably the
reverse of what you wanted, which was to send cat's output on stdout
to stderr instead, so that the client would see it, which can be
accomplished with "1>&2".

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Received on 2009-06-10 02:21:13 CEST