Re: tbtape -s on SCO Unix 3.2.5.0

In article <01bb9bfc$05e3ce20$9255dacd@an16lan.tir.com>, Bryan Johnson <bjohnson@mail.tir.com> writes > >I am currently working on a upgrade for a system from Informix 4.0 to >Informix 5.x. Within the crontab entry the tbtape -s is running >redirecting standard input to the command to make it automated. > >This is working fine 80% of the time. The problem comes in when the >process recieves an initial error with the tape device unable to be opened. > After this the process starts to ask which level of archive to run, but >instead of waiting for a response from the file it gets caught in a loop >and creates a file in /tmp until the root file system fills. At this >point the SCO will crash and not come back up. > >My question is can anyone tell me is there a better way (or any other) to >make tbtape runing a level 0 archive of the system? If it errors out and >aborts due to tape errors that is fine to. We just need to make this so >it will not crash the entire system. > > >Thanks in advance. >Bryan Something like echo "0" | tbtape -s | head -150. The head -150 stops output after 150 lines. The temporary file is tbtape writing to stdout which it thinks id the screen, -- David Williams