I'm not familiar with login.sql, can you elaborate? On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 1:30 PM, Howard Latham <howard.latham@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > check your login.sql > > On 17 August 2010 19:10, Clay Colburn <clay.colburn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> I went one step further and just spooled select sysdate from dual to a new >> file and the file was created in the same directory as output.log and has >> output included in it. Consider this thread closed unless I can come up >> with something more informative to report. >> >> thanks for the assistance! >> >> >> On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 11:04 AM, <rajendra.pande@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>> Any other set commands in the sql file >>> >>> Cant see why they may interfere with spool >>> >>> >>> >>> Can you comment out the 2 files and just run select sysdate from dual and >>> see what output you get on screen >>> >>> Can you also check if sqlplus is pointing to OH/bin/sqlplus or something >>> else >>> ------------------------------ >>> >>> *From:* Clay Colburn [mailto:clay.colburn@xxxxxxxxx] >>> *Sent:* Tuesday, August 17, 2010 1:53 PM >>> *To:* oracle-l; Pande, Rajendra >>> *Subject:* Re: spool creating empty file >>> >>> >>> >>> No spool commands in the individual files. >>> >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 10:45 AM, <rajendra.pande@xxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>> Check the files that you are running. They may have their own spool >>> commands >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------ >>> >>> *From:* oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto: >>> oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On Behalf Of *Clay Colburn >>> *Sent:* Tuesday, August 17, 2010 1:42 PM >>> *To:* Oracle-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >>> *Subject:* spool creating empty file >>> >>> >>> >>> I am executing a file from within sqlplus that looks as follows: >>> >>> >>> >>> spool output.log >>> >>> set timing on >>> >>> set time on >>> >>> @/tmp/myfile.sql >>> >>> @/tmp/myfile2.sql >>> >>> spool off >>> >>> >>> >>> The output.log file is being created, but it does not have any contents. >>> As sqlplus is running myfile.sql and myfile2.sql, I can see the output that >>> it is generating on the screen, but the same output is not being written to >>> the spool file. I know that this same method has worked before, but if >>> someone could point me in a direction to look for what could potentially be >>> the problem that would be great. >>> >>> >>> >>> Thanks. >>> >>> >>> Please visit our website at >>> http://financialservicesinc.ubs.com/wealth/E-maildisclaimer.html >>> for important disclosures and information about our e-mail >>> policies. For your protection, please do not transmit orders >>> or instructions by e-mail or include account numbers, Social >>> Security numbers, credit card numbers, passwords, or other >>> personal information. >>> >>> >>> >>> Please visit our website at >>> http://financialservicesinc.ubs.com/wealth/E-maildisclaimer.html >>> for important disclosures and information about our e-mail >>> policies. For your protection, please do not transmit orders >>> or instructions by e-mail or include account numbers, Social >>> Security numbers, credit card numbers, passwords, or other >>> personal information. >>> >> >> > > > -- > Howard A. Latham > > Sent from my Nokia N97 > >