Subj : still not tossing
To   : Wilfred van Velzen
From : Rick Smith
Date : Thu Jan 12 2023 05:44 am

Greetings Wilfred!

Thursday January 12 2023 08:18, you wrote to me about an urgent matter!:

 WV>  * Forwarded from area 'BINKD'
 WV> Hi Rick,

 WV> On 11 Jan 23 20:06, Rick Smith wrote to Wilfred van Velzen:
 WV>   about: "still not tossing":


 WV>>>>> {
 WV>>>>>   echo "processsing"
 WV>>>>>   echo "PATH = $PATH";
 WV>>>>>   echo "SHELL = $SHELL";
 WV>>>>>   /usr/local/bin/hpt toss

 WV>>>>> } >/tmp/test.txt 2>&1

 WV>>>>> So you can see everything that is written to stdout and stderr

 RS>>>> I am giving this a go thankyou... Where will I see the errors
 RS>>>> from it?  I am unfamiliar with stdout and stderr..

 WV>>> It is what the software normally outputs to the console screen
 WV>>> (normal and errors). It's now redirected to the /tmp/test.txt
 WV>>> file...

 RS>> ok, still not tossing but now the test.txt isnt being created
 RS>> with the script above that you suggested?

 WV> You don't quote the first line:

 WV> #!/bin/bash

 WV> Did you include that in the script?

 WV> Does it work on the commandline, and creating the /tmp/test.txt file?


 WV> Wilfred.

works fine on command line.. I noticed that it ran last night at midnight on 
one packet but /in was still full of pkts... Crazy


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