All,

Once again I am back to my old tricks. I'm working on a database rebuild script that will shutdown the old database, create a new database file, start the old database as an engine only, then unload the old database and reload into the new database.

My problem is where I have noted. Once the old database is started it will not move to the next line of code until the database is stopped. So, my question is this:

How do I get the script to move to the next line of code? Is there something I'm missing when I use the "system" fucntion?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Bobby Curtis 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

#########################
#                       #
#DEFINE GLOBAL VARIABLES#
#                       #
#########################
#my @args = ("-c \"dsn=dba_fmds;uid=dba;pwd=sql\"","-ii","-t plan","D:
+/workingfiles/scripts");
my @args0 = ("\/FI \"imagename eq dbsrv9.exe\"");
my @stopargs = ("stop ASANYs_awrdsprodcution");
my @scqueryargs = ("query ASANYs_awrdsprodcution");
my @initargs = ("-p 8192","D:/WorkingFiles/DATABASES/CURRENTDATABASES/
+ARNET/TestBuild/"."arsams.db");
my @engstartargs = ("D:/WorkingFiles/DATABASES/CURRENTDATABASES/ARNET/
+arsams.db");
my $stopvalue = 0;

#########################
#                       #
#Function Script        #
#                       #
#########################

if (system("tasklist",@args0) == 0 && system("sc @scqueryargs") == 0)
{
    print "\n";
    print "Stop service: ";
    my $std_in0 = <STDIN>;
    chomp($std_in0);
        
    if($std_in0 eq "y"){
        system("sc @stopargs");
        $stopvalue = 1;
        
        print "\n";
        print "Stop value set to: $stopvalue\n";
        print "\n";
            
        if($stopvalue == 1) 
        {
            print "Creating new database file with 8192 kilobyte page 
+file\n";
            print "\n";
            system("dbinit", @initargs);
            print "\nNew database file created\n";
            
            print "Starting old database with dbeng9\n";
            system("dbeng9", @engstartargs);  #HANGS UNTIL DATABASE IS
+ SHUTDOWN....WHY????
            print "Old database started with dbeng9\n";
            $stopvalue = 0;            
            
        }
        
    }else{
        warn "Service will not be stopped\n";
    }
    
}else{
    print "==>==>==> failure, exit status = $?\n";
}

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