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   Greetings Wilfred!   
      
   Thursday January 12 2023 08:18, you wrote to me about an urgent matter!:   
      
    WV>  * Forwarded from area 'BINKD'   
    WV> Hi Rick,   
      
    WV> On 11 Jan 23 20:06, Rick Smith wrote to Wilfred van Velzen:   
    WV>   about: "still not tossing":   
      
      
    WV>>>>> {   
    WV>>>>>   echo "processsing"   
    WV>>>>>   echo "PATH = $PATH";   
    WV>>>>>   echo "SHELL = $SHELL";   
    WV>>>>>   /usr/local/bin/hpt toss   
      
    WV>>>>> } >/tmp/test.txt 2>&1   
      
    WV>>>>> So you can see everything that is written to stdout and stderr   
      
    RS>>>> I am giving this a go thankyou... Where will I see the errors   
    RS>>>> from it?  I am unfamiliar with stdout and stderr..   
      
    WV>>> It is what the software normally outputs to the console screen   
    WV>>> (normal and errors). It's now redirected to the /tmp/test.txt   
    WV>>> file...   
      
    RS>> ok, still not tossing but now the test.txt isnt being created   
    RS>> with the script above that you suggested?   
      
    WV> You don't quote the first line:   
      
    WV> #!/bin/bash   
      
    WV> Did you include that in the script?   
      
    WV> Does it work on the commandline, and creating the /tmp/test.txt file?   
      
      
    WV> Wilfred.   
      
   works fine on command line.. I noticed that it ran last night at midnight on   
   one packet but /in was still full of pkts... Crazy   
      
      
   ----   
   Regards,   
      
      
    Rick Smith (Nitro)   
      
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