Re: ps -f

} } Scott Ellard (cse@wetware.com) wrote: } : In article <33aspc$ems@emory.mathcs.emory.edu> jgordon@systems.DHL.COM (Jim Gordon) writes: } : >> Hello, all, and thanks for the responses. To follow up, I tried } : >> all suggestions, and none worked. After going though three levels } : >> of Informix support, they have acknowledged a bug, all the way } : >> thru 5.03 that you cannot run ps in a SYSTEM call from a stored } : >> procedure. Just about every other unix command is okay, but not } : >> ps. You cant even put it in a shell script and invoke it. } } this is not true .. you can invoke ps in a ksh script and redirect the std out } etc .. I have written lots of scripts that invoke all versions of ps . } if you meant an sql script then you might be correct .. what about cmd } from a 4gl .. I don't think the bug is affected using redirection. It also works for us running a 4gl routine > to a file as well as a C program. } } } --------------------------------------------------------------------- } | Keith E. Root internet: keithr@winternet.com | } | National Business phone : 1-612-647-0143 | } | Data Systems, Inc. fax : 1-612-642-0913 | } | Microwaves will frizz your heirs! | } --------------------------------------------------------------------- } -- Mikea