Partha and Mathew,
I took your suggestions and got it to work when I issued the command in the directory where the do file is. Thank you both for helping out!
Weijang
>>> Partha Deb <[email protected]> 4/22/2008 12:06 PM >>>
Mathew's suggestion is right on. But to make your life even easier in terms
of permissions and keeping track of where your do and log files are/go, try
the following.
cd dirname
where dirname is the directory in which you stored your do file.
then
nohup stata -b do mydofile.do &
or
stata -b do mydofile.do &
Partha
[email protected] wrote:
> When Stata is run in batch mode it automatically creates a log file with
> the name of the do file being run in the directory from which Stata is run.
> Your problem is probably that you do not have write permission for the
> directory. You can check with `ls -l', or attempt to create a file `touch
> myfile'. Try starting from another directory, your home directory for
> example.
>
> For running batch jobs I prefer:
>
> nohup stata -b do mydofile &
>
> nohup tells linux not to stop the process if the terminal window is closed.
>
> Mathew
>
>
>> Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:23:51 -0400
>> From: "WEI-JANG HUANG" <[email protected]>
>> Subject: Re: st: batch job on Linux server
>>
>> Partha,
>>
>> I tried what you suggested and now it's telling me 'unable to
> open.....log'. Did you need to specify the full path name when issuing
> 'stata' command? I'm suspecting >I might be at the wrong place
> (directory).
>> Weijang
>>
>>
>>>> Partha Deb <[email protected]> 4/18/2008 10:17 PM >>>
>> Commands as you have described work for me. However, if your mydofile has
> an
>> extension, e.g., mydofile.do, you'll need to add that to the file
> specification
>> stata - bb do mydofile.do &
>>
>> The ampersand at the end will allow you to get back to your prompt (%)
> while
>> the Stata job is running.
>>
>> Hope this helps.
>
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