RE: RE: [Perl-unix-users] Odd problems from shell commands run vi a RP C service

2004-08-20 Thread vega, james
That's an idea. I'll play around and see what happens with the output when I manually kill the process. I would hope Perl would still get the output, but we'll see. > -Original Message- > From: David Greenberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, August 20, 2004 11:00 AM > To: vega

Re: RE: [Perl-unix-users] Odd problems from shell commands run via RP C service

2004-08-20 Thread David Greenberg
Is it possible that the process is being killed externally. If that happens, the output using backticks might be lost while some or all of the output will still be written to a file. Maybe it's something along these lines? -David - Original Message - From: vega, james <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [Perl-unix-users] Odd problems from shell commands run via RP C service

2004-08-20 Thread vega, james
Title: Message That's what we're doing.  As I said, it's only sporadically that these commands don't return STDOUT.  For the most part, they work, but sometimes we have problems.  One way that we've worked around the STDOUT problem is by redirecting STDOUT to a file and then reading back the

RE: [Perl-unix-users] Odd problems from shell commands run via RP C service

2004-08-20 Thread vega, james
> -Original Message- > From: Anthony Ettinger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I don't know about RPC, but I usually use this syntax > when calling an external command: > > system($cmd) == 0 or die "system @args failed: $?" > > perldoc -f system Thanks for the reply, but I'm afraid that d

Re: [Perl-unix-users] V100/Blade2500 Vs Ultra10

2004-08-20 Thread David Greenberg
It all depends on exactly what the script is doing and the exact specs of the V100 or Blade2500 that you're getting, but I have worked on both and would guess you're probably looking at drastic improvement. When I upgraded from an Ultra10 to a Blade1500, I everything was overwhelmingly faster (not

[Perl-unix-users] V100/Blade2500 Vs Ultra10

2004-08-20 Thread Sandeep Deshpande
Dear All, I am working on a very low end machine Ultra10. For some reasons, I need to run a Perl script on 900-1000 files in a sequential manner, almost on daily basis. This process takes lot of time. I am thinking of changing my workstation. I think V100 Server or Sun Blade 2500 would be the bette