Re: Cron ?

Terry A Haimann wrote:
I tried the following:

0 0 * * * /bin/su - MyUser -c /path/your-FreePascal-program

And when it ran I got the following message:

standard in must be a tty

On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 21:24:05 +0200, Jan Gerrit Kootstra wrote:


Terry A Haimann wrote:

Is there something different about running a job in cron then there is
from a command prompt. I have a FreePascal created program that crashes
when I run it from cron, but works normally when submitted from bash. This program is starting several other programs (If that makes any
difference.)

Thx, Terry

Terry,


Does your program require environment variables to be set before running the program itself?

By default cron does not create an user environment.

To set an user environment I use a script,say cron-pascal-program.sh with a content like:

su - user -c /path/your-FreePascal-program


and the cron entry like:

0 0 * * * /path-to/cron-pascal-program.sh


Other option, I have not tested: cron entry

0 0 * * * /bin/su - user -c /path/your-FreePascal-program

This way your user environment is set at runtime of the Pascal program.


Best regards,


Jan Gerrit Kootstra


Terry,


Does this program need standard input? In other words do you need to answer questions bt typing words or numbers?

So can you give more details about what your program is doing?


Kind regards,


Jan Gerrit Kootstra
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