INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Pilot fish is working for a client at the same time that a consulting firm is developing a new system for the support team
And fish is nearby when the job fails during one of the early production runs
The support staff looks it over, but is quickly lost, so fish is called on for help.Fish finds that the system consists of nine programs
that run in sequence within a single shell script
The final step had failed, resulting in a non-zero return code.So fish reviews Program 9 output, and finds that the file from Program 8 was
He and the support team lead then start looking through Program 8 and its log to determine why it didn&t produce the file — only to
discover that the file from Program 7 was missing
They repeat through programs 6, 5, 4, 3, and finally back to Program 2, where they find the real cause of the failure: There was no error
checking between the programs.
