Re: Using tbtape from cron

After coming in one morning to many to find my root filesystem full because of a giant error message from my cron tbtape job (after I forgot to insert a tape, or left a write protected tape in), I hit upon the following trick: echo '\\n0' | tbtape -s 1 | head -100 The head cuts things off when tbtape gets into the infinite "insert a tape and press any key to continue" thing. I have found that normal output is well less than 100 lines. This trick also seems to kill off the loose tbtape process too - but I'm not sure why. Of course, YMMV. Martin -- Martin Andrews andrewm@ccfadm.eeg.ccf.org Dept. of Neurology Phone (216)444-7485 Cleveland Clinic Foundation Fax (216)445-6617