From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-09-09T08:13:55+09:00
Subject: Re: calling scp from ruby

On Sat, 9 Sep 2006, Seid Rudy wrote:

> Seid Rudy wrote:
>> unknown wrote:
>>> On Sat, 9 Sep 2006, Seid Rudy wrote:
>>>
>>>    system "scp #{ src } #{ dst } >#{ log } 2>&1"
>>>
>>> are you on windows by any chance?
>>>
>> no, unix
>>
>> I did that and i got an empty log.
>>
>> I also rerun the script without deleting the sql file so it appended to
>> the file like it should. When i looked at the destination file i noticed
>> the file stopped at the same spot. But when i look up further to the top
>> of the destinatio file i noticed it had the a complete content of the
>> sql file followed by an incomplete content of the sql file. Ofcourse the
>> source has content of two complete sql files appended in one.
>
> I DON'T THINK IT'S scp ISSUE.
> i get the same problem when i do this
>
> system("cat #{sqloutput}/#{date_folder}.sql
> #{sqloutput}/#{date_folder}.jnk >#{sqloutput}/#{date_folder}.out")

hmmm.  are you sure you don't have disk issues?

-a
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