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Old 09-18-2010
Cron error
I am running the following cron job:

Code:
SHELL=/usr/bin/ksh; export SHELL; . $HOME/.profile; xxx.sh > xxx.out 2>&1

and I am getting mail with the folloinwg message mailed to me when I login as this user: stty: tcgetattr: Not a typewriter

I am running on an AIX 6.1 machine
Code:
oslevel -s
6100-03-06-1034

Here is the .profile of the user running the cronjob (see below) what does this mean and how can I fix it? thanks to all who respond.

Code:
cat /home/oracle/.profile 
 
stty erase ^?
set -o vi
EDITOR=/bin/vi
ORACLE_HOME=/u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0.1.0
TNS_ADMIN=$ORACLE_HOME/network/admin
ORACLE_SID=pri
 
PATH=.:/usr/bin:/etc:/usr/sbin:/usr/ucb:$HOME/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:$ORACLE_HOME/bin
 
export PATH EDITOR ORACLE_HOME ORACLE_SID TNS_ADMIN
 
if [ -s "$MAIL" ]           
then echo "$MAILMSG"  
fi

Last edited by Scott; 09-18-2010 at 05:52 PM.. Reason: Please use CODE tags
# 2  
Old 09-18-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by BeefStu
cat /home/oracle/.profile
...............
Code:
stty erase ^?

....
stty
set the options for a terminal, at cron you haven't terminal
you can't use the command

My propossition, change job;
Code:
SHELL=/usr/bin/ksh; export SHELL; . $HOME/.profile 2>/dev/null ; xxx.sh > xxx.out 2>&1

Last edited by john1212; 09-18-2010 at 05:01 PM.. Reason: add propossition
# 3  
Old 09-19-2010
... or within the .profile test for terminal context

Code:
if [ -t 1 ]
then
         stty erase ^?
fi

# 4  
Old 09-20-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by methyl
... or within the .profile test for terminal context

Code:
if [ -t 1 ]
then
         stty erase ^?
fi

Nice trick, where can I find the man page regarding the -t option. I would like to read up on this.

Thanks all for your help.
# 5  
Old 09-20-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by BeefStu
Nice trick, where can I find the man page regarding the -t option. I would like to read up on this.

Thanks all for your help.
Code:
man test

[ -t 0 ] checks if the stdin in the given script is a terminal.
[ -t 1 ] checks the stdout.
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