<font size="2"><font size="4"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255); font-family: times new roman,serif;">yeah
I Have been Having the same knid of problems as this is with the
logging fixing things. whenever I have a problem i just ad logging in
at radnum places and it seems to fix it <span style="font-style: italic;">(For a while)</span>. Does anyone know what it causes this???</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255); font-family: times new roman,serif;">
</font><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255); font-family: times new roman,serif;"><font size="4">its really annoying! I agree with TIM: </font><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><font size="4"><span style="font-weight: bold;">
what the Crap??</span><br style="font-weight: bold;">
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Kindly,</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">
<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">HK Whacker</span></font></span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><font size="4"><br>
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</span></span></span></font><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/6/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Tim Fischer</b> <<a href="mailto:tim.fischer@trinitytransport.com">tim.fischer@trinitytransport.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Bob Stockler wrote:<br><br>>Tim Fischer wrote (on Fri, May 06, 2005 at 12:16:24PM -0400):
<br>><br>>| I'm having some trouble with setperms - basically, it's starting, then<br>>| hanging. Here's what shows up on screen:<br>>|<br>>| Checking for user 'filepro'...<br>>|<br>>| User 'filepro' found, proceeding normally...
<br>>|<br>>|<br>>| Setting permissions and ownerships for filePro programs<br>>| located in /u/appl/fp<br>>|<br>>|<br>>| Setting permissions and ownerships for filePro menus<br>>| located in /u/appl/fp/menus
<br>>|<br>>|<br>>| Setting permissions and ownerships for filePro data files<br>>| located in /u/appl/filepro<br>>|<br>>| -n .<br>>|<br>>| Then it sits here until I kill it. Has anyone seen this before? Is
<br>>| there a flag I can use that will run setperms with logging enabled?<br>>|<br>>| I'm on Solaris 9 using FP 5.0.13D4.<br>><br>>Edit setperms so it's second line is:<br>><br>> set -xv<br>><br>
>Do you have the program "script" (that copies the standard output<br>>and standard error output to a file) on your system? If so, execute<br>>it. then execute setperms, exit script by typing <Ctrl>+d and then
<br>>look in the file "typescript" to see if you see why it's hanging.<br>><br>>If you don't have "script", execute setperms (having made the above<br>>edit to it) and the part of its code where it hangs should be visible
<br>>on your screen.<br>><br>>Bob<br>><br>><br>><br>><br><br>Bob,<br><br>Thank you, this helped alot. However, this brings up a much bigger<br>issue that doesn't make any sense. You described the "set -xv" as a
<br>logging mechanism, which is exactly what happened. Why then, would this<br>actually fix the problem? No, I didn't do anything else other than put<br>the "set -xv" into the second line of the code and the issue failed to
<br>replicate.<br><br>The scary thing is that this isn't the first time I've seen this. I've<br>had many instances where my code wouldn't work (though it looked like it<br>should) and when I put a simple "system echo" in to my script to see
<br>what was going on, it started working. A lot of my scripts still<br>include logging to /dev/null simply because if that's not there, it<br>doesn't work.<br><br>What the crap is going on?<br><br>--<br>Tim Fischer<br>
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