Re: A Classic crontab Question

From: Green, Simon (Simon.Green_at_EU.ALTRIA.COM)
Date: 09/01/05

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    Date:         Thu, 1 Sep 2005 11:21:04 +0200
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    That's the first thing to check, but I notice that there's also a TERM
    variable. Crontab doesn't have a terminal associated with it. Obviously a
    variable is just a variable, but if the program being called is expecting
    there to be a terminal it might have problems. 

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-----Original Message-----
From: IBM AIX Discussion List [mailto:aix-l@Princeton.EDU] On Behalf Of
Robert Miller
Sent: 31 August 2005 18:49
To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
Subject: Re: A Classic crontab Question
The classic answer is that there's something in the user's .profile or
.kshrc that sets up some environment (variables, PATH statement, functions,
etc) that is set up when the user runs it interactively, but that
environment is not set up when cron runs.
So, find out what is not set up when running through cron, and add that to
the script that runs the job, and things should be happy.
--rm
-----Original Message-----
From: IBM AIX Discussion List [mailto:aix-l@Princeton.EDU]On Behalf Of
Karl Jones
Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 10:37 AM
To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
Subject: A Classic crontab Question
I know this has been asked often before but I am not 
finding the posts in the archives.
I have a script that works for a user but when executed 
from a crontab fails with the following message (AIX 5.1):
[snip] 
                                                            
                    a25R78C a25R77CQQa25R1C 
                                                            
                  a1R1C/usr/local/bbj401/bin/bbj 
terminating: FAILED to read from AppServer
Here is the setup scripts....(in the application it runs 
about five other programs.)
$ cat dosj
TERM=wyse60
export TERM
BBTERM=T700
export BBTERM
BBCONFIG=/usr/local/osas/OSASSRV/progRM/config.aut
export BBCONFIG
TERMCAP=/usr/local/bbj401/cfg/termcap
export TERMCAP
cd /usr/local/osas/OSASSRV/progRM
/usr/local/bbj401/bin/bbj -q 
/usr/local/osas/OSASSRV/progRM/RMSETUP.aut
$
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