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- From: welchb@woods.ulowell.edu
- Subject: Please explain SUBMIT action.
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.161212.1@woods.ulowell.edu>
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- Organization: University of Lowell
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 21:12:12 GMT
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- I am used to the fact that I often have trouble with submitting
- jobs. In particular, if the job creates a file, and if the execution
- time is lengthy, I often try to look at the log file, or the file being
- created (with TYPE, DUMP, EDIT) with no luck; the file is locked by
- another user.
- I was running such a job, when the machine crashed. When it
- rebooted itself, the locked files were now unlocked. The job continued
- to run correctly, but I could now TYPE the output file as it grew
- during the execution.
- I admit that I messed around quite a bit, submitting several
- jobs, some with the log file /KEEP, some with /USER=SYSTEM, and maybe
- other variations. Yet I am reasonably certain that the phenomenon
- above is correctly described. What was happening?
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- Brendan Welch, UMass/Lowell, W1LPG, welchb@woods.ulowell.edu
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