[LDM #ARA-679268]: Scour in LDM 6.13.6 not cleaning directories that 6.11.6 would

Anne,

> Thanks for the swift response. But at this point literally everything in
> our scour.conf file is coming up as not existing, even if navigating to it
> by hand on command line works fine.
> 
> More examples:
> ~ldm/data/decoders                      10
> ~ldm/data/decoders/nssl                 2
> 
> scour: directory ~ldm/data/decoders does not exist, skipping
> scour: directory ~ldm/data/decoders/nssl does not exist, skipping
> ldm@system: cd ~ldm/data/decoders
> /usr1/ldm/data/decoders
> ldm@system: ls
> acft/  csig/   ffa/  gfsmos/   hrcn/  isig/  ncon/  rdf/    scd/
> ship6hr/         ship_nomask/  taf/   warn/   wou/
> airm/  drops/  ffg/  gfsxmos/  hrly/  ltng/  nssl/  recon/  ship/
> ship6hr_nomask/  syn/          uair/  watch/  wstm/
> ldm@system: pwd
> /home/ftp/mntfil1v1/data/ldm2/decoders
> ldm@system: cd nssl
> /usr1/ldm/data/decoders/nssl
> ldm@system: pwd
> /home/ftp/mntfil1v1/data/ldm2/decoders/nssl
> ldm@system: ls
> ptype/  qpe/  qpe_01H/  qpe_q2rad_gc/  qpe_q2rd_gc/  rainrate/

Good lord! That means that this compound command in the scour(1) script:

        if edir=`cd "$dir" && /bin/pwd`; then
            : true
        else
            $LOGGER "directory $dir does not exist, skipping"
            continue
        fi

is taking the false path -- something that's arguably impossible.

We'd better check our assumptions. Please send me the output of the following 
commands, executed by the LDM user:

    id
    uname -a
    echo $SHELL
    /bin/pwd
    ls -ld ~ldm/data/decoders ~ldm/data/decoders/nssl

Also, and if you can, would you please replace the blank line at the top of the 
installed scour(1) script, "~ldm/bin/scour", with the line "#!/bin/bash" to see 
if that gets it to work.

Regards,
Steve Emmerson

Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: ARA-679268
Department: Support LDM
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed
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