lenny@icus.islp.ny.us (Lenny Tropiano) (04/22/89)
In article <547@flatline.UUCP> erict@flatline.UUCP (J. Eric Townsend) writes: |> |> |>Here's the situation. I'm running pathalias from crontab, and |>I get an error in the Error Window (the little [!!] window near the |>Mail Icon). I hit [Msg] and all it says is "/proc/{process id}". |> |>I'm working on getting a log of all the processes and their id numbers |>so I can get an idea of what it is that's crashing, but til then, |>anyone having any suggestions on how to get more information on the |>error window stuff? |> Actually I got this myself, and I have to admit it had me going for a while. I thought it was something wrong with my kernel. I woke up each morning with a /proc/#### [once with a /proc/0666 - guess the devil was taking over my machine ;-)]. Finally I turned on process accounting "acct(2)" and found out it was pathalias ... ahh. Well you've already figured out it was pathalias, as it turns out pathalias writes to stderr. Just so happens when jobs are run from /etc/smgr stderr is dup(2)'d to /dev/error, which will be the [!!] icon. There's the answer to your mystery. It's not a bug, all you have to do redirect stderr "2>" to something /dev/null or a file... -Lenny -- Lenny Tropiano ICUS Software Systems [w] +1 (516) 582-5525 lenny@icus.islp.ny.us Telex; 154232428 ICUS [h] +1 (516) 968-8576 {talcott,decuac,boulder,hombre,pacbell,sbcs}!icus!lenny attmail!icus!lenny ICUS Software Systems -- PO Box 1; Islip Terrace, NY 11752
erict@flatline.UUCP (J. Eric Townsend) (04/23/89)
In article <679@icus.islp.ny.us> lenny@icus.islp.ny.us (Lenny Tropiano) writes: >Just so happens >when jobs are run from /etc/smgr stderr is dup(2)'d to /dev/error, which >will be the [!!] icon. Is this a feature or a bug? :-) -- Skate UNIX(tm) or die... J. Eric Townsend Inet: cosc5fa@george.uh.edu 511 Parker #2 Houston,Tx,77007 EastEnders Mailing List: eastender@flatline.UUCP