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- From: shenkin@still3.chem.columbia.edu (Peter Shenkin)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
- Subject: AIX problem -- perhaps an FAQ -- "Background write".
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.191031.24531@sol.ctr.columbia.edu>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 19:10:31 GMT
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- Organization: Dept. of Chem, Columbia U., New York
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- System (output of "uname -a"): AIX still4 2 3 000108151000
-
- I have a csh aliases that look like:
- alias l 'ls -lts \!*'
- alias lh 'l \!* | head'
- Thus lh gives the top ten lines of a long listing. I have never
- had a problem with this alias on any other machine. But on this
- AIX system, sometimes in the middle of a session use of this alias
- will suspend the job in background, and give the message, "Background
- write." Logging out, then in again fixes it. What's going on?
-
- -P.
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