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

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
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
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 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, the return code will be 128+signal

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 ___

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: snip 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

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: snip Though 'ls' was just an example -- just about any program will fail. The 'w' command will

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

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 something

[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)

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 ...

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:

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 due

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: snip 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: 0.94, 1.46, 2.04