Example 1

In this example, a command generates the following stderr file.

Error opening rc file /etc/arc.rc
No rc file opened.
Ending due to error.

From the contents of the message file, we can see that the program failed to open a resource configuration file.

Either of the following translation tables could match error messages in the message file. Message masks should be general enough to match a set of error messages.

Translation Table 1

# UMET Translation Table 1
#
# Message Mask                Exit Code    
# ------------                ---------
  "*error*"                   8  

Translation Table 1 will result in a match if any input line contains the word error. The resulting exit code will be 8 if a match occurs.

Translation Table 2

# UMET Translation Table 2
#
# Message Mask                Exit Code
# ------------                ---------
 "Ending due to error."       8  

Translation Table 2 will result in a match only if the exact message text "Ending due to error." appears as a line in the input file. This is less general, but may be sufficient for this command.

Example 2

(This example continues from Example 1.)

In this example, the command now generates the following stderr file.

Error opening rc file /etc/arc.rc
Processing rc file /usr/etc/arc.rc
Ending successfully

From the contents of the message file, we can see that the program failed to open a resource configuration file /etc/arc.rc, but successfully opened file /usr/etc/arc.rc.

Translation table

The following translation table is one of many that could match error messages in the message file.

# UMET Translation Table 1
#
# Message Mask                Exit Code    
# ------------                ---------
  "Ending due to error."      8            
  "Processing rc file *"      0            
  "Error opening rc file *"   8 

Translation Table 1 contains three entries:

• First entry matches against a specific error message that always indicates an error if present.
• Second and third entries match messages produced by resource configuration file processing.

Components

Universal Message Translator