From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 21 12: 5:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from proxy2.ba.best.com (proxy2.ba.best.com [206.184.139.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5EB615ACE for ; Tue, 21 Sep 1999 12:05:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from GregoryC@stcinc.com) Received: from stcinc.com (gw-covad768k-cognitivetech.ncal.verio.com [207.20.238.29] (may be forged)) by proxy2.ba.best.com (8.9.3/8.9.2/best.out) with ESMTP id MAA07375 for ; Tue, 21 Sep 1999 12:03:33 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <37E7DA76.ECF8FA02@stcinc.com> Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 12:20:22 -0700 From: Gregory Carvalho Reply-To: GregoryC@stcinc.com Organization: Simplified Technology Company X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Spawn not functioning Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG While installing Oracle 8.0.5.1 on FreeBSD 3.2R using instructions from http://www.freebsdrocks.com/show.php3?ThisArticleID=5016&start=1&sReturn=25&search_category=8&search_criteria=&search_field= the installation program calls spawn which causes the setup app to abort. Here is an example of the failure: An operating system error occurred while trying to spawn 'cat /usr/home/oracle/oracle805.install/orainst/README.FIRST | \grep \.' while redirecting output to '¨^](e no^'. (No such file or directory.) Would you like to retry the operation, ignore the error, or allow the error to be processed by the Installer? The only operational choices cause the install to abort. I commented out the offending line in unix.stp, restarted the install, and orainst continued to the next spawn, spawn("touch /etc/oratab"); so I modified ORATAB to /usr/local/oracle/etc/oratab to no avail, the redirection to '' (orainst reports this as the redirection location) generated on line 1828 of unix.stp causes the install to abort. Apparently, spawn needs to redirect it's output. Do you know what I can do to make spawn's redirection operate properly? Thanks, Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message