SUMMARY: Malfunctioning crontab scripts

From: Dan Lawless <DAN_at_coastal.edu>
Date: Mon, 3 Jun 1996 16:03:03 EST

My original post was:

> We've recently upgraded platforms from a Decsystem 5000 running
> Ultrix to an Alpha 1000 4/233 running DU 3.2D. Since the move, all
> of my crontab run scripts which use ftp to push files to other
> locations send back the following message:
>
> stty: tcgetattr: Not a typewriter
>
> Any insight on this would be appreciated. Thank you in advance.

Thanks go to the following for various suggestions:

          Jacques Demeulemeester
          Hellebo Knut
          Lucien HERCAUD
          Dennis Wesson

The answer was that within the ftp portion of the script I had used a
shell escape to echo a command to a logfile on the local machine.
This line was what caused the error message. Apparently it must have
failed silently under ULTRIX, but became noticable under DU3.2d.

Thanks to all.

Dan Lawless
Coastal Carolina University
Received on Mon Jun 03 1996 - 22:29:44 NZST

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