Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!rutgers!njin!princeton!udel!rochester!bbn!uwmcsd1!ig!agate!ucbvax!UNCAEDU.BITNET!ewilts%Ins.MRC.AdhocNet.CA From: ewilts%Ins.MRC.AdhocNet.CA@UNCAEDU.BITNET (Ed Wilts) Newsgroups: comp.os.vms Subject: re: Print symbionts Message-ID: <880616090153.01h@Ins.MRC.AdhocNet.CA> Date: 16 Jun 88 15:01:53 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 11 I have now gotten our print symbiont successfully debugged without taking out the job controller. Thanks to all who offered the help (especially Nick Bush, who responded first). To summarize, the most important thing to remember is to NEVER write to SYS$OUTPUT or SYS$ERROR. Doing so will cause the job controller to up and die and get users annoyed. Establish a condition handler to trap for all conditions (and don't let it exit with a SS$_RESIGNAL condition :-)) and you should be okay. .../Ed