Also, some programs don't like it when there
is no controlling tty for the process. If you
do a "ps auxww" and there's a "?" in the TTY
column, then that process does not have a
controlling tty.
If David's TERM environment variable thing
doesn't do the trick, try running your command
using "screen". screen will allocate a
pseudo-tty, and run your process using that
pseudo-tty as the process' controlling tty.
Example:
screen cat /etc/shadow
D
OT: Did anybody see the tux2 filesystem on /.?
Sounds interesting...
* On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 03:15:50PM -0700,
sinck@ugive.com wrote:
>
>
> \_ In the past, I have run the following in a crontab:
> \_
> \_ lynx -dump http:/<URL OF PAGE> | mail -s "My Subject" me
> \_
> \_ On the command line everything works as expected, however,
> \_ running it in cron, it chokes. Complains about my terminal
> \_ not supporting something or another.
>
> It doesn't like the term setting cron sets up for you.
>
> Try lieing to the shell in crontab:
>
> * * * * * (export term=vt100; lynx -dump ... | mail -s ...)
>
> YMMV.
>
> Or try another tool like curl or wget.
>
> David
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