Applications Menu items: how to make them run a script ?

[Mumia W.]

Vincent Trouilliez wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 22:09:42 +1200
> "Stuart A. Yeates" <syeates at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> There are a couple of tricks for shell scripts:
>> (a) make sure the permissions are correct (i.e. executable)
>> (b) make sure you're using absolute paths
>> (c) remember the the #! at the start
>> (d) use verbose error handling to stdout, for debugging, at least when
>> you detect something wrong
> 
> 
> Thanks, unfortunately for me, a b and c are already satisfied :-(
> 
> as for d, I don't know how to make the applications menu "verbose", as
> it just fails silently when I click on the menu item, doesn't pop up any
> error message for me to look at :-/
> 

Hi Vince.

Try running the important parts of the script from within a subshell 
that redirects stdout and stderr:

#!/bin/sh
(
jhat &
xplane &
pkill jhat
) > /tmp/logfile 2>&1