topic Writing to a log file in SAS Programming

Writing to a log file

jacksonan123 — Tue, 09 Jan 2018 12:38:35 GMT

I have been using the following code to write to a log file while running a program to avoid the log containing the output.

proc printto log='/folders/myfolders/BootRIT/filenOLD.LST/';

However I get this error while running SAS University edition.

1 OPTIONS NONOTES NOSTIMER NOSOURCE NOSYNTAXCHECK;

62 /*PROGRAM TAKES A CONTROL FILE AND DUPLICATES IT N TIMES*/

63 /*THE $DATA LINE IS ALSO CHANGED TO MATCH THE FILE NAME*/

64 proc printto log='/folders/myfolders/BootRIT/filenOLD.LST/';

65 RUN;

ERROR: Resource is write-locked by another user. File =/folders/myfolders/BootRIT/filenOLD.LST. System Error Code = 11.

ERROR: File is in use, /folders/myfolders/BootRIT/filenOLD.LST.

NOTE: The SAS System stopped processing this step because of errors.

NOTE: PROCEDURE PRINTTO used (Total process time):

real time 0.00 seconds

cpu time 0.01 seconds

<br\> WARNING: Maximum log size exceeded. Click here to view full log.

Can someone tell me what I have done wrong and how to get the log to be written to a file?

Thanks

RW9 — Tue, 09 Jan 2018 13:11:12 GMT

Well, first off I assume this is a typo:

proc printto log='/folders/myfolders/BootRIT/filenOLD.LST/';

As the last / is not correct.

What is BootRIT? Do you have write access to it, is it being used by the system? Try a file somewhere else:

proc printto log='/folders/myfolders/filenold.log';
run;

Note the various updates I made to the code.

jacksonan123 — Tue, 09 Jan 2018 14:20:04 GMT

Your suggested code worked. The Bootrit was a folder that I had created.