Re: Re: Can't execute star cronjob

[email protected] wrote:

> Hi,
>
> > Opcije="-fifostats -multivol -time"
> > BlockSize=8m
> > FifoSize=128m
> > TapeDev="/tmp/arhiva.star"
> > Log="/tmp/tblib-$BckStart.log"
> > star -c bs="$BlockSize" fs="$FifoSize" $Opcije -V pat=firmware/\* -V \
> > pat=security/\* f="$TapeDev" . 2>> "$Log"
> > 
> > So, my cronjob (only for this test purpose) will execute every minute.
> > Result is mail message with following in attachment:
> > star: No such device or address. Cannot open '/dev/tty'.
> > 
> > Why I am getting this "star: No such device or address. Cannot open 
> > '/dev/tty'." error?
>
> I fgrep'ed for "/dev/tty" in star-1.5/star/*.c and found
>
>         if (interactive || ask_remove ||
>             ((multivol || tsize > 0) && !newvol_script)) {
>         ...
>                 if ((tty = fileopen("/dev/tty", "r")) == (FILE *)NULL)
>                         comerr("Cannot open '/dev/tty'.\n");
>
> which leads me to the theory that your option "-multivol" is the
> reason why star prepares to ask you for an eventual second tape.
> If you really want to handle multivolume archives under cron
> then you will have to find a different solution. 

This is correct, you cannot use star from cron in a way that requires
manual intervention.

If you like to use "-multivol" in a non-interactice command, you would
need to automate this and this forces you to use the new-volume-script=script
option.

Jörg

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