Informix error 1502 running onbar from crontab

Is there any trick to running onbar from cron? I have a Sun E3500 with sun unix version 7. When I type at a command line /informix/bin/onbar -b -L0 that works just fine. However, when I schedule it in cron I get an error 1502 - message 1502 not found. Any ideas? Thanks Paul Jazwierski

Sounds like environment, if it work from command line and not cron then it must be the environment, wrap your call in a script setting a known environment Paul Jazwierski wrote: > > Is there any trick to running onbar from cron? > > I have a Sun E3500 with sun unix version 7. When I type at a command > line /informix/bin/onbar -b -L0 that works just fine. However, when I > schedule it in cron I get an error 1502 - message 1502 not found. > Any ideas? > > Thanks > > Paul Jazwierski -- Paul Watson # WF Software Ltd # You are only young once Tel: +44 1436 674729 # but you can be immature Fax: +44 1436 678693 # for ever www.wfsoftware.com #

Paul, are you running cron as informix or as root? If you're running it as the latter, root may not have the environment variables necessary to execute this command. Try scheduling this command as informix and see what happens. Paul Jazwierski wrote: > Is there any trick to running onbar from cron? > > I have a Sun E3500 with sun unix version 7. When I type at a command > line /informix/bin/onbar -b -L0 that works just fine. However, when I > schedule it in cron I get an error 1502 - message 1502 not found. > Any ideas? > > Thanks > > Paul Jazwierski -- Phillip Tien Database Administrator Whole Foods Market, Inc. "I always wanted to be the last guy on Earth just to see if all those women were lying to me."