Writing to a log file

[jacksonan123]

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;

61

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 · Accepted solution]

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]

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