Re: cron and isql

In article <3fgsur$dam@emory.mathcs.emory.edu>, johnson@hqcso.attmail.com wrote: > We are successful running loads and ACE reports in cron, but are > not able to do isql updates in cron. We were told that this is not > supported. Is this true? Anyone have any suggestions? > We are running this on an AT&T 3B2 with Informix 2.10 SE (yes, old > stuff). We are moving to current version of SE on an NCR box soon. > Don't know if the problem occurs on new box yet. > And we think we have all the environment variable set (PATH, INFORMIXDIR, > DBPATH) correctly. I take it, then, that you have a shell script which works when you run it from the command line. What happens when you use at instead of cron? Without more specific information (what sort of problems you're having, the errors, etc) I don't know what else to suggest. -- Jim Holthaus email: james-holthaus@uiowa.edu phone: 319/335-3138 Programmer-Analyst, Univ of Iowa, Iowa Memorial Union Info Systems Never put your tongue on a glacier.