RE: To use "at" vs. "crontab", that is the question

From: Fabio Giannotti (fabiog_at_venmar.com)
Date: 10/25/03 

Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2003 16:07:08 GMT
To: "Scomsc (E-mail)" <scomsc@xenitec.on.ca>

I have found that I need to add a

TERM=ansi;export TERM

line to the script that calls the foxbase program from cron or at...

Fabio

> -----Original Message-----
> From: listmaster@xenitec.on.ca [mailto:listmaster@xenitec.on.ca]On
> Behalf Of Bob Meyers
> Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 10:25 AM
> To: distribution@xenitec.on.ca
> Subject: Re: To use "at" vs. "crontab", that is the question
>
>
>
> "Dave" <bonehead@home.net> wrote in message
> news:Wl2mb.3904$P%1.3269694@newssvr28.news.prodigy.com...
> > Yes yes, I'm sure someone will have a laugh or two, but
> FoxPro is still
> > being used and I'm not knowledgeable enough with SCO. Although I'm
> absorbing
> > what I can about SCO when I have time, I wanted to once
> again get the
> advice
> > from those with the experience.
>
> If they laugh, I'll get the garden hose, foxpro is one fine
> product. Too bad
> Microsoft killed it, an obvious monopoly abuse.
>
> If you are going to run foxpro with 'at' or cron, you may
> need to modify
> your code so it doesn't do any screen output, except error
> and quit. I'll
> never forget one of my first foxpro cron jobs, I redirected stderr and
> stdout to a /tmp file. It then proceeded to hit a foxpro
> error and fill up
> the root filesystem and crash. You'll have to redirect stdin
> and set TERM or
> foxpro will error out.
>
>

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