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Re: close journal file read-only [message #79130 is a reply to message #79034]

Wed, 01 February 2012 05:20

bstecklu
Messages: 14
Registered: February 2012

Junior Member

On Jan 23, 9:57 pm, Bringfried Stecklum <steck...@tls-tautenburg.de>
wrote:
> I guess many of us log their IDL session to keep track of the work. My question
> is whether it is possible to close the log file and make itread-onlyfrom
> within IDL? Thejournalcommand lacks a corresponding option. I just want to
> avoid that the file is being deleted/changed later on by accident.
>
> If this cannot be done by IDL itself, I have to come up with a cronjob that
> checks the log folder for closed files which are still writable, and changes
> their attribute.
>
> Regards, Bringfried

Well, although the interest in the question was not particularly
overwhelming,
below is my IDL exit procedure which answers the question

; close journal, make it read-only, and exit
pro myexit
; get file name for journal unit
help,/files,!journal,out=out
; omit IDL string treatment
spawn,'echo '+out[1]+"| awk '{printf $8}'",file
ans="N"
read,"Really close journal and exit? y/N ",ans
if (ans eq "y") or (ans eq "Y") then begin
journal
file_chmod,file,a_write=0
exit
end
end

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[Message index]

		close journal file read-only By: Bringfried Stecklum on Mon, 23 January 2012 12:57
		Re: close journal file read-only By: David Fanning on Thu, 02 February 2012 07:55
		Re: close journal file read-only By: bstecklu on Fri, 03 February 2012 01:04
		Re: close journal file read-only By: Heinz Stege on Thu, 02 February 2012 07:27
		Re: close journal file read-only By: Bringfried Stecklum on Thu, 02 February 2012 01:05
		Re: close journal file read-only By: Heinz Stege on Wed, 01 February 2012 06:46
		Re: close journal file read-only By: bstecklu on Wed, 01 February 2012 05:20

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