Strange - almost sounds like tar is getting a '&' appended and running in the background.. which doesn't seem possible if it's just being executed as part of a script. I need a beer too.
Scott Rohling On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 3:09 PM, Tom Duerbusch <duerbus...@stlouiscity.com>wrote: > And another thing..... > > It isn't a problem with REXEC or REXECD. > > Instead of executing each command via REXEC to Linux, I created a script > which had all the commands in it. > So, REXEC only executed the script. > But what happened was.... > > The tar was being executed. > Long before the tar completed, bash started executing the remainder of the > commands in the script. However tar was still running (and keeping the tape > drive in use). > > This is similar to tar being executed asynchronously. > > However, when I run the script interactively, from Putty (actually Kitty), > the command runs like it is suppose to. Only when the tar completes does > the next command start to executed. > > So, it seems, at this point, that tar knows when it is being executed > remotely and returns control early (and continues to execute). > > However, executing the script using VM's REXEC, didn't produce the > asynchronous behavior. > > So, REXEC from VSE using the CSI 1.5E stack seems to be telling tar > something that REXEC from VM (z/VM 5.2) isn't. > > Time for a beer. > > Tom Duerbusch > THD Consulting > > >>> Carsten Otte <co...@de.ibm.com> 7/28/2011 8:41 AM >>> > Hi Tom, > > if I recall correctly, we reserve the tape on open, and free it on closing > the file descriptor. You shout be able > to find out which process is using it via "fuser /dev/ntibmX". > > with kind regards > Carsten Otte > IBM Linux Technology Center / Boeblingen lab > -- > omnis enim res, quae dando non deficit, dum habetur et non datur, nondum > habetur, quomodo habenda est > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or > visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux on System z, visit > http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or > visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux on System z, visit > http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
