Sleep command in a cron process

[ken white]

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From: "Kenneth Brody" <kenbrody at spamcop.net>
Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2010 1:34 PM
To: "George Simon" <george at flowersoftusa.com>
Cc: <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
Subject: Re: Sleep command in a cron process

> On 6/17/2010 11:13 AM, George Simon wrote:
>> Has anyone experienced problems when using the sleep command on a program
>> run by the cron?
>
> filePro does not know, nor care, if it's running via cron.
>

you need to have the terminal type set if running from cron.

TERM=${TERM:-vt100}
export TERM


>> filePro version 5.0.14R4
>> We have a sleep command for 3 seconds but it does not seem to be working.
>
> Define "does not seem to be working".
>
> -- 
> Kenneth Brody
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