Gary

How do I stop this?

Question after question is not complete enough to really receive any substantial assistance. Many of us that are spending our valuable time to try to help others accomplish what they are trying to do without all the pain we had to go through to solve a problem, but it seems that there is maybe 1 in 100 that ever update their question with the data requested or with results.

Very frustrating situation.

1st, the client side is CentOS release 5.2 (Final)

The server sides are 5.2, 5.4 and 5.5 and the results are the same from all.

I am putty'd into the client.

An example of a script that demonstrates the issue, /home/SERVICES2:

#!/bin/sh

/sbin/service httpd status

/sbin/service postfix status

/sbin/service memcached status

/sbin/service mysqld status

Which is run from DEV(client):

#!/bin/sh

ssh -t SERVER1 'sudo /home/SERVICES2' > SERV2.out

or

#!/bin/sh

ssh -t SERVER1 'sudo /home/SERVICES2'

which sends the output to the screen which is the copied and pasted to SERV.out

P-F-A root / #diff SERV.out SERV2.out

1,4c1,4

< httpd (pid 3239) is running...

< master (pid 3040) is running...

< memcached (pid 29436) is running...

< mysqld (pid 2964) is running...

---

> httpd (pid 3239) is running...

> master (pid 3040) is running...

> memcached (pid 29436) is running...

> mysqld (pid 2964) is running...

While attempting to ID the differences, I ran:

P-F-A root / #cat SERV.out | sed -e "s/$/X/"

httpd (pid 3239) is running...X

master (pid 3040) is running...X

memcached (pid 29436) is running...X

mysqld (pid 2964) is running...X

P-F-A root / #cat SERV2.out | sed -e "s/$/X/"

Xttpd (pid 3239) is running...

Xaster (pid 3040) is running...

Xemcached (pid 29436) is running...

Xysqld (pid 2964) is running...