Okay list maybe you can help me with this. I am debugging one of my programs. I run the program and interact with it and an error message appears and quickly goes away. I don't have access to the source code so I have to try and capture the screen output and see the error. It happens too fast to pause the screen. I have tried to use the tee command but the program hangs when it goes to the next screen for input. I only get the opening screen and the my input for the menu selection.
I also tried to start another shell by doing an sh -iv |& tee /tmp/log and on a second terminal session did a tail -f /tmp/log That sort of worked but I only got the first screen and nothing after that. So I want to hack my session in essence. These are all console (character based) sessions and it is a program expecting input not just an ls or script that runs. I remember in my first SCO class where we created a terminal as a printer but that was years ago and I don't have that code. I figured I could hack the console to write the output to a file besides the STDOUT and then I could review that file for my error. Maybe I am wrong and I will have to recompile the code with a debug portion. Just to recap, I tried sh -iv |& tee /tmp/log with tail -f /tmp/log run-my-program | tee /tmp/log run-my-program | tee -a /tmp/log run-my-program 2>&1 None of these worked. This is a SCO 5.0.6 system and it is a COBOL program which is run through a runtime. TIA John J. Boris, Sr. "Remember! That light at the end of the tunnel Just might be the headlight of an oncoming train!" _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
