http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B13789_01/server.101/b12170/ch3.htm#i1133106 From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Clay Colburn Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2010 6:51 PM To: Howard Latham Cc: rajendra.pande@xxxxxxx; Oracle-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: spool creating empty file I'm not familiar with login.sql, can you elaborate? On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 1:30 PM, Howard Latham <howard.latham@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:howard.latham@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote: check your login.sql On 17 August 2010 19:10, Clay Colburn <clay.colburn@xxxxxxxxx<mailto: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<mailto: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<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<mailto: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> [mailto: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<mailto: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