Re: unsupervised ontape question

Danny Williams wrote: > > Hi All! > > I want to run ontape from a cron job but it requires that you press > "Return" after mounting your media. Can someone please tell me how to > pass ontape a single "Return" and if it still wants the media mounted to > get it to exit. > > I've tried a here file, i.e. > > ontape -s -L 0 << !> dummy > ! > > but that just causes ontape to continually tell me to mount my media if > it isn't mounted. Get rid of the string 'dummy' and just put the newline. BTW is the tape mounted? Are you backing up to a file? The file MUST already exist and should be length 0 with owner and group informix and permissions 660 just like the database chunks. Art S. Kagel