RE: exec shell command

So far I have tried all of the following to stop sending standard output to the log file and start sending it back to the screen:

exec > db_heartbeat.log 2>&-
db_heartbeat.log >&-
2>&-
exec > db_heartbeat.log >&-
>&-
exec 2>&1
exec 2>&-

None of them worked.

Tom

Tom Terrian
Oracle DBA
WPAFB - DAASC
tterrian_at_daas.dla.mil
937-656-3844  

-----Original Message-----
[mailto:Scott.Shafer_at_dcpds.cpms.osd.mil] Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2002 2:51 PM
To: Terrian, Tom

exec 2>&1

**I think**

Scott Shafer
San Antonio, TX
210-581-6217

"Common sense will not accomplish great things. Simply become insane and desperate."

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Terrian, Tom [SMTP:tterrian_at_daas.dla.mil]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2002 1:21 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: exec shell command
>
> Here is a good one for you, I have been doing something in my korn shell
> scripts
> which I really never understood and now need to change. :-)
>
> I have the following line that sends the output from the shell script to a
> log
> file:
> exec > db_heartbeat.log 2>&1
>
> At the bottom of my shell script I now want to stop sending the output to
> the
> log file and instead print the log file to the screen.
>
> Does anyone know how to turn of the exec line?
>
> Thanks,
> Tom
>
>
> Tom Terrian
> Oracle DBA
> WPAFB - DAASC
> tterrian_at_daas.dla.mil
> 937-656-3844
> <<...OLE_Obj...>>
>
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