BDF

[expertone]

I am facing a minor issue , I dont know why ?? :)

when I am using BDF command i am getting the output, but when i am using  " bdf | more "

it is not being executed, also bdf is showing perfect output but my cursor is not coming to 

the " # " prompt. I always have to use  "CTRL + C " to cancel it.

Can anybody will tell me what this issue is ???? 

Regards 

Ashish prakash

[Torsten.]

Let's continue here

http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/General/BDF-Command/m-p/6156707#M7277

this time.

[Ralf Seefeldt]

Hi,
your bdf | more is in fact beeing executed. more is waiting to get some more input.

To immediately see the output, you could run:
bdf > /tmp/file &
tail -f /tmp/file

bye
Ralf

[expertone]

:)

I am using putty.

[expertone]

That is what i am waiting for that for what " more " is waiting for.

i can see the output from your commands also.. but why mine is not being executed, but on other servers it is perfect.

[Torsten.]

You can get very, very strange results if you do a typo like this

# blabla > more

instead of

# blabla | more

so I would now check if "more" is still the original, e.g.

I have seen such before ...

# whence more

# file ...(insert the result here)

BTW, now you have 2 threads about the same question - confusing.

[expertone]

#
#
#
# whence more
/usr/bin/more
#
#
#
#
# file /usr/bin/more
/usr/bin/more: ELF-32 executable object file - IA64
#
#


this the output


Thanks regards
ashish

[Torsten.]

Looks good - I would try another command with more to see if this works or not. You may also try "man ...anything..." (e.g. man vgdisplay) to see if the sreen formatting works.

[expertone]

its workin fine.... when i use " man "command

[Patrick Wallek]

I think you problem is not 'more' but 'bdf'.  You said:

>>also bdf is showing perfect output but my cursor is not coming to the " # " 

So, if you run 'bdf' by itself you do not get the '#' prompt back, correct?  That indicates that 'bdf' is still trying to access a file system but can't.  Do you have any NFS mounts that it might be haning on?  What if you run 'bdf -l' to just look at local file system?  Does it come back normally then?

[expertone]

Yes you get what my problem is.

the error what ia am get while using " bdf | more is as below
#
# bdf | more
bdf: /usb: Permission denied


and the output of " bdf -l is perfect. there is no hang type of situation.

[Torsten.]

/usb ???

What did you mount?

[expertone]

??.. we have not mounted any thing over there

[Patrick Wallek]

You may need to check your /etc/mnttab file (it is a text file so you can cat it) and see what is listed there, and compare that to the 'bdf' output.  The discrepancy will point you to the problem file system.

I would just run 'bdf' without using 'more'.

[Dennis Handly]

>and the output of " bdf -l is perfect. there is no hang type of situation.

Then you have a hung NFS mount.

[Dave Olker]

Can you post the output from the command "mount" so we can see what filesystems you have mounted?