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 Message 1485 
 Bill McGarrity to Accession 
 Re: Bash file issues... 
 25 Jan 17 16:58:00 
 
Hiya Nick...

-=> Accession wrote to Bill McGarrity <=-

 Ac> Hello Bill,

 Ac> On Tue Jan 24 2017 15:31:06, Bill McGarrity wrote to All:

 BM> Background....

 BM> I have a Raspberry Pi that I'm trying to setup an incoming bash file
 BM> to toss incoming mail and also to run htick for any tic files.  This
 BM> is what I have now...

 BM> #/bin/bash/inmail.sh

 BM> SBBSCTRL=/home/pi/sbbs/ctrl/sbbs.ini

 Ac> Try 'export SBBSCTRL=/home/pi/sbbs/ctrl' and you'll have better
 Ac> results.


I've tried everything... still nothing.  I've tried all the suggestions and
still get enviorment variable not set.


 BM> cd /home/pi/sbbs/exec

 BM> echo ***** Process inbound mail

 BM> sudo ./sbbsecho -LESRFD! > /home/pi/sbbs/events/inerror.log

I even removed everything at the end so it doesn't post to a log and nadda...
but it did come up on the screen... 

 BM> cd /home/pi/husky/htick

 BM> sudo ./htick -c htick.cfg scan

 Ac> [ CUT BELOW HERE ]

 BM> #if exists [ /home/pi/sbbs/secure/*.tic ]

 BM> cd /home/pi/husky/htick

 BM> sudo ./htick -c htick.cfg toss

 Ac> [ INSTEAD ]

 Ac> You may want to use an if/then/else statement here, like so:

 Ac> if [ -f /home/pi/sbbs/secure/*.tic ]; then
 Ac>   sudo ./htick -c htick.cfg toss
 Ac> else


Done.... works perfectly... thank you..


 BM> Why if I'm telling it where the SBBSCRTL is and I getting the
 BM> enviorment not set in the bash file?

 Ac> Because in your script you set the SBBSCTRL environment variable to
 Ac> sbbs.ini, and not the CTRL directory where it should be.

I changed that as I said.  Nadda... :/

Please read my reply to John...




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