[pca] pca.sh exit code status

[Chris Gibson]

On 02/09/2012 03:50 AM, Martin Paul wrote:
> Chris Gibson wrote:
>> Should it not show an exit of 1? Also I would I exclude the exit status
>> of 3, 4 and 5 as we are patching ABE's and don't care about the reboot
>> notification.
>
> I know, PCA's exit values are from perfect. The problem is that the
> requirements of the users are quite different, and it seems to be
> impossible to express all the demanded information in a single
> numerical value. So as I couldn't find a solution which would please
> everybody, I didn't put much effort into this.
>
> In your case the best alternative would be to look for the "Download
> Summary" and "Install Summary" lines in PCA's output in your wrapper
> script. There you can get detailed information about all patch
> downloads and installations, separated into successful/skipped/failed
> patches.
>
> Hope that helps,
>
> Martin.
>

I added these 2 lines at line 338 in the current version. It exits with
1 if failed to download or failed to install is greater than 0. Someone
else might find this useful.

       if ($c{faildl} > 0 || $c{failinst} > 0){
                $xval || ($xval=1)}