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From: ping@cubmol.bio.columbia.edu (Shiping Zhang)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.xenix.sco,comp.unix.internals,comp.unix.sysv386,comp.unix.shell
Subject: crontab for ordinary users
Message-ID: <1990Oct15.181918.8325@cubmol.bio.columbia.edu>
Date: 15 Oct 90 18:19:18 GMT
Reply-To: ping@cubmol.bio.columbia.edu (Shiping Zhang)
Organization: Dept. of Biology, Columbia Univ., New York, NY
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In order to test if crontab works for, I prepared the follow
script file called test which is chmoded excusable

#!/usr/bin/csh
# the script file
echo test crontab

and created the crontab file with a single line in the format:

min h * * * /wholepath/test

The script is invoked at specified time but aborted at very begining.
I got the following message from the system:

Subject: Output from "cron" command
Status: R

Your "cron" job

/wholepath/test

produced the following output:

TERM: Undefined variable.


I tried the following:
min h * * * export TERM; /wholepath/test
min h * * * set TERM; export TERM; /wholepath/test
min h * * * set TERM termname; export TERM; /wholepath/test
etc...
But non of them worked.
However, if it was invoked in the root crontab, it worked fine.
Can anyone point out to me what is the problem?
Thanks.

-ping