Re: Stored procedure executing system calls

Jonathan Myatt wrote: > > Hello Danny (Are you Danny from LITS at Warwick, by the way??) > > > I have a problem with a stored procedure that is executing a system > > call. I am on Informix Online 7.22.uc1 on AIX 4.2.1. > > What's the system call doing? I have a similar problem which so far > looks to be because of weirdness with the environment that the shell > which runs SPL system calls gets. It seems like only a small number > of environment variables get through to this shell. I've yet to > figure out why. > > Might be a similar problem, I'm just guessing... > > Jon > > Jon Myatt > IBM Mid-Range Services Tech Support > Warwick, UK. Try dumping the environment to a file during one of these system calls and see what inspecting the entrails reveals. You are remembering to flag environment variables for export, I presume? -- Peter Lancashire Information Systems Specialist, Bayer plc Eastern Way, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, IP32 7AH, UK Tel: +44-1635-562258, Fax: +44-1635-562281 Mail: Peter.Lancashire.PL1@bayer.co.uk --- My Internet plumbing does not allow me to mail and post news together. Sorry. All opinions are my own and not those of Bayer plc. --- Join Infuse, the UK Informix User Group at http://www.infuse.org.uk/