ot: fuser rh 4 and 5 differences
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 20:53:02 -0500
Message-ID: <7ED53A68952D3B4C9540B4EFA5C76E360852AAFE_at_CWYMSX04.Corp.Acxiom.net>
I know this is a Linux question/issue, but it's related to a difference in Redhat 4 and 5 and with folks upgrading RH to handle 11g, I thought others might run into this. From a line in the man page for "fuser" under RH 5:
fuser outputs only the PIDs to stdout, everything else is sent to stderr.
This is new, as before all non-error output went to stdout. It bit us, as we have a DBA script where we cleanup various Oracle files and use "fuser" to check if it's open before messing with the file. So the command:
for active_file in `fuser $dir/$sub/* | cut -d\: -f1`
behaves differently under RH 4 than in 5.
A simple test can be done using "fuser $ORACLE_HOME/lib/libclntsh* | cut -d\: -f1" across RH 4 and 5.
The obvious solution is to add "2>&1" to the "fuser" command, but I'm bringing this up because I'm sure there are other DBAs out there with scripts using "fuser" and having to support these scripts across RH releases.
Dave Herring | DBA
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