Re: Ontape via Cronjob

Unfortunately you have been given answers that will work most of the time, but can give you some serious trouble. As far as I know you may get some growing temporary files and an ontape command that is never terminated if there ever is a problem with the tape. Se further below. :Aaron Herskowitz wrote: ...snip... :> We have a shell script that does the "ontape -a" that uses a command :> line of :> :> (echo "\\n"; echo "n\\n") | ontape -a :> :> to get past the same message, but for some reason this doesn't work with :> "ontape -s". Ruediger.Papke@t-online.de (Ruediger Papke) wrote: :Short Time -> Short Answer :Please try this script: :ontape -s -L 0 << EOF : :EOF : :This is a Here-script. The second (empty) line stands for the RETURN :after "Please mount tape ... and press Return to continue...". rslp@bcg.bad.com (Rs) wrote in another responce: :Or you can try this : : :echo " :" | ontape -s -L 0 : :The characters after the first " is not just the RETURN key. It is :ctrl-v ( meaning raw character ), and then ctrl-j ( for new line ). :this gives the <RETURN> sequence needed by ontape. it worked for :me all the time. But in the excelent faq at http://www.iiug.org we find: 8.4 How can I run ontape/tbtape from a cron job? echo '\\n0' | tbtape -s 1 | head -100 The head cuts things off when tbtape gets into the infinite "insert a tape and press any key to continue" thing. I have found that normal output is well less than 100 lines. This trick also seems to kill off the loose tbtape process too - but I'm not sure why. Of course, YMMV. By Martin Andrews (andrewm@ccfadm.eeg.ccf.org) Note that recent releases of Informix engines have renamed the "tb*" utilities to "on*" The faq is allways a smart place to look. Nils.Myklebust@idg.no NM Data AS, P.O.Box 9090 Gronland, N-0133 Oslo, Norway My opinions are those of my company The Informix FAQ is at http://www.iiug.org