Re: cron and setting TERM

Posted in 1999

a_blonde@mindless.com — Thu, 26 Aug 1999 05:29:23 -0400 (EDT) — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

---- you wrote: > > > Steven L Cooper wrote: > > > > But, it would be a good test to see if the semi-colon is "wanted" when > > running from cron... > > > > TERM=wy60; export TERM > > or even > > TERM=wy60 > > export TERM > > Fair enough. Stand by.... > > No good. I supect that the ; is not important as other variables such > as PATH and the various INFORMIXXXX seem hoopy. Perhaps I should > just hire someone to run my jobs manually overnight. :) :( I missed the start of this thread Dude, but why are you trying to set TERM in a cron job? You are not attached to a tty in a cron job. All stdout and stderr goes to mail. AB ---------------------------------------------------------------- Get your free email from AltaVista at http://altavista.iname.com