Help: START REPORT xx TO yy

Gurus, I am experiencing a very strange proble. I am coding in Informx 4.xx under Unix. Inside my .4gl code, I have a report as such: START REPORT PrintFile TO "/Itmp/ro_status" Here is the problem: Sometimes the file is written in full and other times the file is written but Unix says there are zero bytes in the file any help will be appreciated. NOTE: /Itmp is a shared directory on the system. 2. When I direct the output to my local directory, NO PROBLEM, the file is successfully written everytime!! Thanks in advance KLeon.