A few comments and questions:

A. I hope that all of you guys are reporting these issues to SAS Tech Support.

B. Have you applied all of the appropriate hotfixes for your installed products? I believe there are some that are essential for proper operation under 2K and XP, although I've had a heck of a time trying to determine that from anything on the SAS web site. My recommendation is just install every thing that is applicable (especially the hotfix bundles for Base and Core) regardless of whether it appears that you need them or not.

C. You know that user profiles really shouldn't be in the temp directory, right? User profile stuff gets put in temp (aka WORK) when another job or user is using the real SASUSER directory, which should be located elsewhere, such as somewhere off of each user's home directory.

s/KAM

----- Original Message ----- From: "Dennis G. Fisher" <dfisher@CSULB.EDU> Newsgroups: bit.listserv.sas-l To: <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> Sent: Sunday, October 20, 2002 4:54 PM Subject: Re: Profile problems in SAS 8.2?

> We are also having a variety of problems with the profiles once we upgraded to > 8.2. We are using SAS on a Win2K server and connecting to it using Terminal > Server. > Dennis Fisher > > Arthur Tabachneck wrote: > > > Rob, > > > > I, and a number of others, have had problems trying to using Win2K with SAS. > > Unfortunately, the solution, so far, appears to use NT instead. I would be > > interested to find out of the same types of problems are being encountered > > by XP users as well. > > > > Art > > > In message > > > <Pine.A41.4.44.0210151720240.208060-100000@homer04.u.washington.edu>, R. > > > Cole <colerl@u.washington.edu> writes > > > > > > > >Hi- > > > > > > > >On a host of Win2k machines, I've been running into problems with SAS > > > >crashing due to what appears to be data in C:\sasdata or C:\sastemp (the > > > >sas data temp directory). Basically what happens is this: the user logs > > > >in and tries to run SAS. SAS just sits there indefinitely trying to > > start > > > >up. > > > > > > > >This has happened with about 10 of our users now, and the solution is to > > > >create a batch file which deletes the temp directory before running SAS. > > > >Unfortunately, this results in negative problems with SAS not remembering > > > >profile settings, etc. > > > > > > > >Has anyone else had this problem? Please let me know. > > > > > > > >thanks, > > > >Rob > > > > > > > >:----------------------------------------------------------------------: > > > >: Rob Cole : America is the only nation in history : > > > >: colerl@u.washington.edu : which miraculously has gone directly : > > > >: Biostatistics : from barbarism to degeneration without : > > > >: : the usual interval of civilization. : > > > >: : - Clemenceau : > > > >:----------------------------------------------------------------------: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > -------------------------------------------------------- > > > Holland Numerics Ltd > > > 94 Green Drift, Royston, Herts SG8 5BT, UK > > > mobile : +44-(0)7714-279085 > > > email : <NEWS@hollandnumerics.com> > > > URL : http://www.hollandnumerics.com/ > > > -------------------------------------------------------- > > -- > Dennis G. Fisher, Ph.D. > Director > Center for Behavioral Research and Services > 1090 Atlantic Avenue > Long Beach, CA 90813 > 562-495-2330 > 562-983-1421 fax