[mod.computers.vax] Help on obscure exit code.

PKARP@SRI-IU.ARPA (Peter Karp) (02/26/86)

I have a detached server process which occasionally dies (i.e., once
every couple days).  I set up the command file which runs the process
to examine the value of $STATUS after it dies, and this value is
%X38048.  When I see what message this is associated with via
"$ exit %x38048", DCL says:
	%DCL-W, missing command parameters - supply all required parameters

I do not find this message meaningful.  For example, the program
which dies is not installed in the DCL command tables, nor should it
be accessing its command line at all a full day after it has been
started up.

I should mention that this is a Eunice program, and that no Unix signals
are caught by the program (and I have almost all of them set to
be caught).

I have no clue as to why or where this program is dying.  For example,
its log file buffers are not flushed, so they are no help.  If anyone
has a clue as to the meaning of the $STATUS value above, I would
appreciate hearing it.  Or could this value be completely meaningless?
Thanks,

Peter
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