On Nov 13, 11:05 am, bine <sabine.hubrig-schaumb...@sungard.de> wrote:
> I have the confusing fact that in contrary to Linux (UnitedLinux or
> SuseEnterpriseServer)
> I miss some informations I write to a file.
> It seems that defining this file to be used for stdout+stderr in a csh-
> call like in
> myprog ... >>& mylog
> prevents later in the callhirarchy,
> that is by things called from myprog,
> and other scripts running in parallel as well
> (because this csh is running with nohup parallel to those)
> to put their output explicitly, e.g. by
> echo ... >> mylog
> into the same file.
>
> Is there some parameter or "set" command to make AIX behave like the
> others?
> I know that if those messages REALLY come in parallel, there MUST be
> some conflict
> due to the serialization of the output, so I might get things in a
> "wrong" order
> (I really don't want to discuss if this application is very
> sophisticated
> or should be modernized/recoded to a certain extent ;-),
> but I miss EVERYTHING of the other processes, not only some of the
> letters,
> so the question occurs if it's a configurable behavior of AIX?
>
> The highest level of any bos.*-module of the machine in lslpp-output
> is 5.3.0.61,
> but I think the behaviour hasn't changed and was the same (and always
> frustrating) in former releases?
>
> Thanks in advance
> bine


1 )Provide a stripped down version of your scripts which does
reproduce the problem
2) AFAIK is csh depreciated for shell programming. Go at least for the
tcsh and see if you have the same problem.
3) You are really sure that no process is writing with > to your
output file ?
4) I believe i have seen some problems with csh and pipes and grep
where the buffer was not flushed if the data was not getting larger
then 4k meaning the script output never left the buffer.

hth
Hajo