Re: ... X problem?

[Jeff Sturm <jeff sturm appnet com>]

Peter Petrakis wrote:
> Your terminal lacks the ability to clear the screen or position the
> cursor.

This is probably an error from ncurses.  It can't find a suitable
terminfo entry for whatever TERM it finds in the environment, and a
daemon like cron isn't normally associated with any specific TERM.

Perhaps you have a `clear' command invoked somewhere from your
cron.hourly.  You could ignore it, or pipe the stderr of clear to
/dev/null, or do something like "export TERM=ansi" at the beginning of
your script.

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Jeff Sturm
jeff.sturm@appnet.com