I'm trying to get the date and error message to show up in a log file on the same line. Can anyone help? #!/bin/sh #Set Environment OMNIBIN=/opt/Omnibus/bin PROBE_LOG=/opt/Omnibus/log echo $1 "switching probe to chis25" > $PROBE_LOG/probe.log

Is "/opt/Omnibus/log" a directory ? Does the user executing this script have write permissions to that directory ? Is "/opt/Omnibus/log/probe.log" a file under that directory that the user has write priviledges to ?

A little more specificity and less seemingly irrelevant detail would be helpful. Assuming that the real question is how to write both a date and error message on the same line to a log file, generally speaking, do the following: echo `date` error message > logfilename or echo "`date` error message" > logfilename or possibly you'll want to use >> so that the line is appended to the file NOTE that the quotes around "date" are backward quotes. This causes the date command to be run and the output of the command to be use by the echo command (meaning the date will be output to the file).