Re: Unattended ontape

mortonj@interlog.com (John Morton) wrote: :Hi there. We're looking at automating our nightly archive via a shell :script (AIX) run via cron, but we can't figure out how to simulate the :enter key after the tape is mounted. : :I know this question's been asked before, but I can't find it in the :FAQs. This was in the FAQ until the new release of it. It even contained a warning about why some solutions that several users seem to have implemented can lead to severe problems. Here's the how we do it: echo ''n' ' /usr/info71on/bin/ontape -s -L 0 ' head -100 As far as I remember the head -100 part was needed to avoide the problems that could otherwise occur. 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