fa9b7f8c38f8fcb9972330f886d0655b44dc0404
hiram
  Wed Aug 19 23:30:22 2026 -0700
need to get the message about about the disable refs #38082

diff --git src/hg/utils/otto/genArk/asmAlias/runUpdate.sh src/hg/utils/otto/genArk/asmAlias/runUpdate.sh
index f99ba8efe81..dfa572cc30a 100755
--- src/hg/utils/otto/genArk/asmAlias/runUpdate.sh
+++ src/hg/utils/otto/genArk/asmAlias/runUpdate.sh
@@ -7,30 +7,35 @@
 
 cd "${TOP}"
 
 eval "$(date "+YMD=%F Y=%Y M=%m DS=%F_%T")"
 export YMD Y M DS
 
 export db="hgcentraltest"
 export logDir="${TOP}/log/${Y}/${M}"
 mkdir -p "${logDir}"
 export logFile="${logDir}/${DS}.txt"
 export prevAliasTsv="${logDir}/${YMD}.asmAlias.tsv.gz"
 export updateTsv="${logDir}/update.${YMD}.tsv"
 
 printf "### logFile: log/${Y}/${M}/${DS}.txt.gz\n" >> "${logFile}"
 printf "asmAlias update disabled until code fix in place\n"  >> "${logFile}"
+gzip -f "${logFile}"
+printf "##############################################\n" 1>&2
+printf "### asmAlias update change log ${DS}\n" 1>&2
+zcat "${logFile}.gz" 1>&2
+printf "##############################################\n" 1>&2
 exit 0
 
 # do not overwrite this copy if it was already done today
 if [ ! -s "${prevAliasTsv}" ]; then
   hgsql -N -e 'select * from asmAlias;' "${db}" \
     | gzip -c > "${prevAliasTsv}"
 fi
 
 printf "### cwd: %s\n" "$(pwd -P)" >> "${logFile}"
 printf "### logFile: log/${Y}/${M}/${DS}.txt.gz\n" >> "${logFile}"
 printf "####### running the update command:\n" >> "${logFile}"
 printf "time (./asmAliasUpdate.py -o update.${YMD}.tsv > update.${DS}.out 2> update.${DS}.err) >> logFile\n" >> "${logFile}"
 
 time (./asmAliasUpdate.py -o "${updateTsv}" > ${logDir}/update.${DS}.out 2> ${logDir}/update.${DS}.err) >> "${logFile}" 2>&1