PFLOGFILE and logtext

[Fairlight]

What happens if you set PFLOGAPPEND -before- launching your filePro
binary, rather than setting it inside processing?

My suspicion is that it's not seeing it at the time it needs to.

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On Thu, Aug 06, 2020 at 05:04:13PM -0400, Nancy Palmquist via Filepro-list thus spoke:
> filepro experts,
> HELP - PLEASE.  Working on a WIN SERVER system, with filepro 5.0 (Sorry we
> keep working toward an update to current but it has not happened.)
> 
> I use PFLOGFILE and logtext all the time.  But it is driving me nuts today.
> 
> One particular process table does not seem to be writing the expected logs. 
> Well it did write one for one user at least during the @once processing then
> nothing else was added.
> 
> Ok here I will try to explain.
> 
> @once processing
> PUTENV "PFLOGAPPEND", "ON"
> 
> Logname=getenv("USERNAME"){-"INTHCB-"{doedit(@td,"YMD","6"){".log"
> logpath="P:/tmp/";logpath=xlate(logpath,"/",chr("92"))
> 
> putenv "PFLOGFILE",logpath{logname{""
> 
> If I run the debugger at this point and ask for the getenv("PFLOGFILE") it
> reports correctly.
> 
> I do a few logtext command to write something in this logfile. Close the
> processing,  But there is nothing added.  The log file is not  created at
> all.
> 
> I use logtext  all the time. I have never had it not work like this.  I
> tried hardcoding the name, I can not figure out why this one process will
> not write a log file when all the others work fine.
> 
> Any ideas what else I can try?  I depend on these log files, since error
> reporting is worthless with these users.
> 
> Just another weird thing: the command line includes a -tf 200000 to increase
> form size but if I getenv("PFFORMTOKSIZE") I get 125000 which is what is in
> the config file.
> 
> 
> Nancy
> 
> 
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