Re: Terminal type and Cron

From: Jean-Pierre Radley (jpr_at_jpr.com)
Date: 10/17/03 

Date: 17 Oct 2003 12:43:15 -0400
To: bv@wjv.com

Bill Vermillion typed (on Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 04:15:09PM +0000):
| In article <20031017051911.GA8420@alexis.mi.celestial.com>,
| Bill Campbell <bill@celestial.com> wrote:
| >On Thu, Oct 16, 2003, Yoram wrote:
|
| >>I added a new task in the Crontab scheduler and everytime it runs I
| >>get an error "Terminal type not found".
|
| >>The task is a shell script I wrote that runs a report generator to
| >>create a report file (dreport of FilePro). I do redirect all the
| >>output to /dev/null.
|
| >>My question is: Does anyone knows how to set a terminal type for an
| >>application being run by Cron?
|
| >The usual way is to set it in a shell script executed by cron:
|
| >#!/bin/sh
| >TERM=xterm; export TERM
| ># rest of your script.
|
| >One way to make sure you get a realistic set of environment variables is to
| >use the output of the ``env'' command to get the environment from a shell
| >session: ``env > myscript.sh'' then edit myscript.sh appropriately.
|
| Here's an idea for an enhancement. Some of the OpenSource systems
| actually ship with variables defined in the root crontab
| of PATH, SHELL, and HOME. [the latter pointing to the log area].
| Those are at the top of the crontab. It could take care of
| questions like this. Add TERM and make it generice like VT100
| and you'd be pretty well covered from forgetting any environemental
| variables a program would need.

Starting in OSR 5.0.7, /etc/default/cron lets you define any environemnt
variables you wish. 

-- 
JP

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