Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Path: utzoo!decvax!decwrl!ucbvax!info-vax From: PKARP@SRI-IU.ARPA (Peter Karp) Newsgroups: mod.computers.vax Subject: Help on obscure exit code. Message-ID: Date: Wed, 26-Feb-86 14:26:06 EST Article-I.D.: Posted: Wed Feb 26 14:26:06 1986 Date-Received: Sun, 2-Mar-86 05:34:25 EST Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 24 Approved: info-vax@sri-kl.arpa I have a detached server process which occasionally dies (i.e., once every couple days). I set up the command file which runs the process to examine the value of $STATUS after it dies, and this value is %X38048. When I see what message this is associated with via "$ exit %x38048", DCL says: %DCL-W, missing command parameters - supply all required parameters I do not find this message meaningful. For example, the program which dies is not installed in the DCL command tables, nor should it be accessing its command line at all a full day after it has been started up. I should mention that this is a Eunice program, and that no Unix signals are caught by the program (and I have almost all of them set to be caught). I have no clue as to why or where this program is dying. For example, its log file buffers are not flushed, so they are no help. If anyone has a clue as to the meaning of the $STATUS value above, I would appreciate hearing it. Or could this value be completely meaningless? Thanks, Peter -------