Re: [ferret_users] spawn stops working

[Ansley Manke <ansley.b.manke@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi Marco,
I can't think of anything that would cause this, and we haven't had 
other reports of it happening. Ferret makes a Fortran "system" call,

https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gfortran/SYSTEM.html

and does nothing more, so there's not much to it.  If you start Ferret 
with "ferret -secure", where system calls are not allowed, then you'd 
see an error message, but it doesn't sound like that's the case.

Ansley

On 11/3/2015 5:39 AM, Marco van Hulten wrote:
> Dear Ferretters,
>
> Sometimes the spawn command doesn't work anymore, so usually
>
>    yes? sp echo test
>    test
>
> but sometimes
>
>    yes? sp echo test
>
> The same for any other command I tried.  After restarting Ferret
> spawning works again.  I do not know how to reproduce this.  Any ideas
> why this may happen?
>
> I'm using Ferret 6.93 (on RHEL/CentOS 6.7).
>
> Marco