Re: Help!! ontape -s in background

Sham, Vaidya wrote: Hi, Although running an ontape -s archive in the background is not recommended by Informix due to the fact that it may hang online if the tape you are writing too needs to be changed. The reason for hanging up is ontape will continue to wait for a tape change and when the time comes for a checkpoint to be written, the checkpoint program will try to write out data to the archive tape and that will then hang OnLine. However, if I am absolutely sure that the entire archive will fit onto tape or I make sure that I am writing to disk with enough space I am OK.... My problem is ontape -s asks for a return to confirm the tape is entered, and waits for the very first tape, how do I enter the "Enter" keystroke from a korn shell. The following script does not work and is a copy of the Joe Lumbley script mentioned in his book for C shell. ( ^M - Control M is a carraige return ). I am running OnLine version 7.12 on a Sun Solaris system. # Begin script ontape -s << EOF 0 ^M EOF #End script Any ideas appreciated... Thanks Sham Vaidya smvaidya@auto.rockwell.com perhaps the following lines can help you: $ nohup ontape -s < Retuen_file & The Return_file is a file only contains a return key . yours ysy ysysmy@hotmail.com