Hey Guys

Thanks for the responses, unfortunately they have not guided me in
solving the problem.
Firstly, a bit of background:

The reason for the the java app is 2 fold, the unix box is a clients
machine, and we are not able to create or get them to create individual
user accounts, we have one (powerfull) user account for the company.

This particular app was built to basically run a script which generates
a report of errors, runtimes etc, of a clients overnight batch run.

So this java app will also be used to automatically schedule/generate
this report.

AFTER FUTHER INVESTIGATION:

The problem/reason for not all information been displayed is that no
unix environment variables are not been set up as they are when one
manually logs on.

The result is that the script output differs when running direcly from
unix sesion as opposed to running script via my java app because the
script is not looking in the correct places to get the required
information.

Now please bear in mind I am a java programmer not a unix techi, so my
unix knowledge is not to great, however I have changed the script to
force setting up environment by calling the relevant scripts - this
helps somewhat - but still have a strange problem.

The enviroment var eg $LOG_PATH is been set up correctly, I know this
because i added debug messages which echo this path. - however when the
script runs a ls or cat  on files in this path, it is not using the
correct value for that Variable.

As a work around I can explictly set LOG_PATH = /app/ds/home/log, but
that means one would need to maintain this script should the environent
var paths change, which is a problem which adds unnedded overhead.

Not giving up on this, even if I have a work around- so any input would
still be appreciated