[Serusers] Re: Calling External Script from Ser.cfg - sr-users

20 Feb 2006

Hi,

I am facing a problem returning a value from shell script for ser.cfg. I could
not even get working with exec_msg. I added a line like this

if(exec_msg('x=1; if [ $x == 0 ];then exit 1 ;fi'))

ERROR: exec_msg: cmd x=1; if [ $x == 0 ];then exit 1 ;fi failed. 
exit_status=-1,
errno=32: Broken pipe

I am getting this error but If I include this

if(exec_msg('x=0; if [ $x == 0 ];then exit 1 ;fi'))

it works. Please tell me what can I do? As described below my plan is to call
java program from shell script and use it's output.

Thanks,
M.

Quoting mkumar(a)mantragroup.com:

...
  After some search I found exec_msg return false, if
return value of 
 script does
 not equals zero, so from shell script I must collect java program output and
 based on that I must return some value.

 Quoting mkumar(a)mantragroup.com:

  Hi All,

 I am trying to call a external script from Ser.cfg using exec_msg. 
 It calls a
 shell script and from shell script I am running a java program which 
 connects
 to Database and makes some queries for getting number of minutes 
 dialled out by
 a customer. My problem is that how can I get the output of the java 
 programme
 value to ser.cfg? I am doing like this

 exec_msg("sh -a /usr/local/ser/mobi.sh $SIP_USER;Some more commands 
 required")

 I tried one approach, if the user crossed number of minutes then I 
 am calling
 system.out(-1); telling unix OS that something went wrong and  
 system.out(0);
 if user did not croos his number of minutes, but it is sometimes 
 successful and
 fails sometimes. So please tell me how can get the output of java program,
 should I use system.out.print in java and grep for that but I do not 
 know how
 can I do this ? I also have no idea whether this approach can be 
 used or not?
 Please tell what should be used to acheive this?

 Any help will be sincerely appreciated.

 Thanks,
 Manoj.