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.
> 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.
>
> "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?
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