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 .. --------------------------------------------------------------------- | 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! | ---------------------------------------------------------------------