RE: [CentOS] Commands failing silently?

2008-03-27 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Dan Bongert wrote: > Dan Bongert wrote: > > Filipe Brandenburger wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 2:21 PM, Dan Bongert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> thoth(3) /tmp> ls > >>> > >>> thoth(4) /tmp> echo $? > >>> 141 > >> > >> 141 is SIGPIPE. If the process is killed by a signal,

Re: [CentOS] Commands failing silently?

2008-03-27 Thread Dan Bongert
Dan Bongert wrote: Filipe Brandenburger wrote: Hi, On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 2:21 PM, Dan Bongert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: thoth(3) /tmp> ls thoth(4) /tmp> echo $? 141 141 is SIGPIPE. If the process is killed by a signal, the return code will be 128+signal number. 141-128=13, and kill -l

Re: [CentOS] Commands failing silently?

2008-03-27 Thread Dan Bongert
Filipe Brandenburger wrote: Hi, On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 2:21 PM, Dan Bongert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: thoth(3) /tmp> ls thoth(4) /tmp> echo $? 141 141 is SIGPIPE. If the process is killed by a signal, the return code will be 128+signal number. 141-128=13, and kill -l says: 13) SIGPIPE.

Re: [CentOS] Commands failing silently?

2008-03-27 Thread Dan Bongert
mouss wrote: Dan Bongert wrote: mouss wrote: Dan Bongert wrote: Hello all: I have a couple CentOS 4 servers (all up-to-date) that are having strange command failures. I first noticed this with a perl script that uses lots of system calls. thoth(66) /tmp> uname -a Linux thoth.ssc.wisc.edu

Re: [CentOS] Commands failing silently?

2008-03-27 Thread Dan Bongert
Kai Schaetzl wrote: William L. Maltby wrote on Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:18:51 -0400: "~>" ? Got me on that one. home dir plus prompt. It looks funny, yes :-) Yup, that's exactly it -- I had run that command from my homedir instead of from /tmp. -- Dan Bongert [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [CentOS] Commands failing silently?

2008-03-26 Thread Kai Schaetzl
William L. Maltby wrote on Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:18:51 -0400: > "~>" ? Got me on that one. home dir plus prompt. It looks funny, yes :-) Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com ___ Ce

Re: [CentOS] Commands failing silently?

2008-03-25 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
Hi, On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 2:21 PM, Dan Bongert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > thoth(3) /tmp> ls > > thoth(4) /tmp> echo $? > 141 141 is SIGPIPE. If the process is killed by a signal, the return code will be 128+signal number. 141-128=13, and kill -l says: 13) SIGPIPE. SIGPIPE means that somet

Re: [CentOS] Commands failing silently?

2008-03-25 Thread mouss
Dan Bongert wrote: mouss wrote: Dan Bongert wrote: Hello all: I have a couple CentOS 4 servers (all up-to-date) that are having strange command failures. I first noticed this with a perl script that uses lots of system calls. thoth(66) /tmp> uname -a Linux thoth.ssc.wisc.edu 2.6.9-67.0.7.E

Re: [CentOS] Commands failing silently?

2008-03-25 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 13:21 -0500, Dan Bongert wrote: > William L. Maltby wrote: > > On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 16:19 -0500, Dan Bongert wrote: > >> mouss wrote: > >>> Dan Bongert wrote: > Hello all: > > > > > > > >> Though 'ls' was just an example -- just about any program will fail.

Re: [CentOS] Commands failing silently?

2008-03-25 Thread Dan Bongert
William L. Maltby wrote: On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 16:19 -0500, Dan Bongert wrote: mouss wrote: Dan Bongert wrote: Hello all: Though 'ls' was just an example -- just about any program will fail. The 'w' command will fail too: thoth(118) /tmp> w 16:06:51 up 5:34, 1 user, load average:

Re: [CentOS] Commands failing silently?

2008-03-24 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 16:19 -0500, Dan Bongert wrote: > mouss wrote: > > Dan Bongert wrote: > >> Hello all: > >> > >> > Though 'ls' was just an example -- just about any program will fail. The 'w' > command will fail too: > > thoth(118) /tmp> w >16:06:51 up 5:34, 1 user, load average: 0.9

Re: [CentOS] Commands failing silently?

2008-03-24 Thread Peter l Jakobi
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 04:18:49PM -0500, Dan Bongert wrote: >> You can also try running ``strace /bin/ls'' to see what is going on. > Funnily enough, running strace will work just fine. Though, as I said, just > about any command will fail -- 'ls' was just for testing purposes. That's funny. Or

Re: [CentOS] Commands failing silently?

2008-03-24 Thread Dan Bongert
mouss wrote: Dan Bongert wrote: Hello all: I have a couple CentOS 4 servers (all up-to-date) that are having strange command failures. I first noticed this with a perl script that uses lots of system calls. thoth(66) /tmp> uname -a Linux thoth.ssc.wisc.edu 2.6.9-67.0.7.ELsmp #1 SMP Sat Mar

Re: [CentOS] Commands failing silently?

2008-03-24 Thread Dan Bongert
Bill Campbell wrote: On Mon, Mar 24, 2008, Dan Bongert wrote: Hello all: I have a couple CentOS 4 servers (all up-to-date) that are having strange command failures. I first noticed this with a perl script that uses lots of system calls. Basically, sometimes a command just won't run: thoth(

Re: [CentOS] Commands failing silently?

2008-03-24 Thread mouss
Dan Bongert wrote: Hello all: I have a couple CentOS 4 servers (all up-to-date) that are having strange command failures. I first noticed this with a perl script that uses lots of system calls. Basically, sometimes a command just won't run: thoth(52) /tmp> ls thoth(53) /tmp> ls thoth(54)

Re: [CentOS] Commands failing silently?

2008-03-24 Thread Bill Campbell
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008, Dan Bongert wrote: >Hello all: > >I have a couple CentOS 4 servers (all up-to-date) that are having strange >command failures. I first noticed this with a perl script that uses lots of >system calls. > >Basically, sometimes a command just won't run: > >thoth(52) /tmp> ls > .

[CentOS] Commands failing silently?

2008-03-24 Thread Dan Bongert
Hello all: I have a couple CentOS 4 servers (all up-to-date) that are having strange command failures. I first noticed this with a perl script that uses lots of system calls. Basically, sometimes a command just won't run: thoth(52) /tmp> ls thoth(53) /tmp> ls thoth(54) /tmp> ls thoth(55)