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- From: thomasl@mtl.mit.edu (Thomas J Lohman)
- Subject: Re: Running Ingres using Unix Cron
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.205100.11647@athena.mit.edu>
- Keywords: Ingres Cron
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- References: <1993Jan12.163830.17691@zia.aoc.nrao.edu>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 20:51:00 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan12.163830.17691@zia.aoc.nrao.edu> cbignell@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Carl Bignell) writes:
- >I have been trying to run an Ingres report using the unix Cron
- >facility so that some report files can be automatically updated on a
- >daily basis. I use the report <database> <reportname> feature of
- >ingres inside of an executable unix script. If I run this script
- >manually it works correctly. If I set this up as a Cron job it does
- >not work even when I preface all files with appropriate paths. Since
- >others have had problems making ingres programs (e.g. embedded SQL and
- >4GL) run under Cron I wanted to find out if there is a way to make
- >this feature work. If the job cannot be run automatically the
- >usefulness of the ingres report writer goes to zero in this
- >application. I would appreciate any help on this matter. Thankyou.
-
- What OS are you running? And what (if any) output is being produced?
- Make sure that all output to stderr, and stdout is being redirected
- somewhere so you can see what is happening. Also, does the program
- have to be run by Ingres or can it be executed by any ordinary user?
-
-
- --tom
-