topic Setting TERM variable in Script to run from CRON in Operating System - HP-UX

Setting TERM variable in Script to run from CRON

Garrin Thompson — Thu, 31 Aug 2000 14:31:40 GMT

We have the need to setup some environment variables in a script that ultimately executes a cobol program and is scheduled by CRON. When it gets to where it runs the cobol progran, I get the error "Terminal type not defined". We copied the following from the root .profile and put it at the top of the script, but now we're getting the error "not a terminal":
if [ "$TERM" = "" ]
then
eval ` tset -s -Q -m ':?hp' `
else
eval ` tset -s -Q `
fi
stty erase "^H" kill "^U" intr "^C" eof "^D"
stty hupcl ixon ixoff
tabs
export TERM

How can we do this? Cobol apparently needs TERM set, but we need to run this from CRON.

Help!?!?!

Re: Setting TERM variable in Script to run from CRON

John Palmer — Thu, 31 Aug 2000 14:35:34 GMT

The 'not a terminal' message is from 'stty'.

You don't want to run 'stty' or 'tset' from cron because they require a real terminal to be connected.

If your application requires TERM then simply export the require value e.g.

export TERM=vt220

Re: Setting TERM variable in Script to run from CRON

Garrin Thompson — Thu, 31 Aug 2000 14:36:31 GMT

Surely it can't that easy?!? :-)

I'm glad I have this forum...Thank you all!