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From: jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.xenix.sco,comp.unix.internals,comp.unix.sysv386,comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: crontab for ordinary users
Summary: Test for $TERM before using it.
Message-ID: <1294@tardis.Tymnet.COM>
Date: 19 Oct 90 17:43:40 GMT
References: <1990Oct15.181918.8325@cubmol.bio.columbia.edu>
Reply-To: jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith)
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In article <1990Oct15.181918.8325@cubmol.bio.columbia.edu> ping@cubmol.bio.col
umbia.edu (Shiping Zhang) writes:
>Subject: Output from "cron" command
>Your "cron" job "/wholepath/test" produced the following output:
>TERM: Undefined variable.

One common error is when the unsuspecting user puts something like
	tset -e^? -k^U -n -s -m dialup:?vt100 -m network:?vt100 $TERM
in their .cshrc file, instead of their .login file where it belongs.

Check to see of your .cshrc file references $TERM anywhere.  If you can't
move that command to .login, you can program around it.  For instance:
  set path=(.. a bunch of stuff ..)
  if ($?USER == 0 || $?prompt == 0) exit
  set notify mail=(15 /usr/spool/mail/$USER) history=500 savehist=500
  alias tset 'eval `\tset -s !*`' # This redefines TERMCAP
The first line is executed whenever csh is invoked for any reason, the
third and fourth only when a human being is connected to it (such as login,
rlogin, or a Sunview window).
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