Re: cron and isql

On Tue, 17 Jan 1995 johnson@hqcso.attmail.com wrote: > Hi! > 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? saying that "this is not supported" is simply a polite way of saying that they have not considered the method as a possible way of using the product, and they are not going to do anything about it. Really, I don't blame them. Frequently I just go ahead and try it out anyway, I have to, I have my customers to support. Have you seen the previous postings about executing ISQL commands from the shell?? I think that will help. > 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. You did set the environment INSIDE your cron job, I hope?! What are the error message you get then? > > Thanks for any suggestions! Sorry, not much of a help. But go ahead and try it, I still think it is do-able. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Calvin Ng email: <calvinng@technet.sg> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [DISCLAIMER] Read at your own risks. The author is not liable for any consequences directly or indirectly involved with reading this mail. This mail MAY NOT be interpreted as those of my employer's. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- This mail is sent with the help of Chameleon TCP/IP for Windows. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=