>On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, David Alan Pisoni wrote:
>
>> When running the script in cron, analog does not successfully decompress
>> my compressed log files. I have tried many remedies, including (but not
>> limited to) explicitly nameing the path to zcat in my 'UNCOMPRESS'
>> directive, explicitly exporting the PATH environment variable in my
>> front-end script, and calling analog directly from a cron entry.
>
>The only other thing I can think of is making sure that zcat is
>universally executable.
>
Oh it is. And it apparently is working, since the data all show up.
>> The strangest thing of all is that the data looks correct. I can't
>> verify this for sure, but it may work anyway.
>>
>
>You could verify it by only analysing the compressed ones and see what
>happens.
>
>The warning is generated if pclose returns a non-zero error code. This is
>normally if the command didn't exist. I'm not sure if there could be
>another reason which would mean that the data was in fact uncompressed and
>read successfully.
>
That is odd, I know. Especially since it works under the command line. Well, I was
just wondering if you had heard of it before...
>>
>> "If God lived on Earth, people would knock out all His windows."
>> -- Yiddish saying
>>
>
>Or send him to the gallows on a trumped-up charge?
>
<G>
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