Process not attached to terminal

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Hi Folks,

When i try to run schedule job on Unix server am getting following errror messges in logs

pic_selection @starting on Fri Feb 5 01:53:06 GMT 2010
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Microfocus Cobol batch run
  Started: Fri Feb  5 01:53:06 GMT 2010
 => System wms
 => Program WMPICSLT
process not attached to terminal
Usage:  who [-rbtpludAasHTqRm] [am i] [utmp_like_file]
r       run level
b       boot time
t       time changes
p       processes other than getty or users
l       login processes
u       useful information
d       dead processes
A       accounting information
a       all (rbtpludA options)
s       short form of who (no time since last output or pid)
H       print header
T       status of tty (+ writable, - not writable, x exclusive open, ? hung)
q       quick who

Usage:  who [-rbtpludAasHTqRm] [am i] [utmp_like_file]
r       run level
b       boot time
t       time changes
p       processes other than getty or users
l       login processes
u       useful information
d       dead processes
A       accounting information
a       all (rbtpludA options)
s       short form of who (no time since last output or pid)
H       print header
T       status of tty (+ writable, - not writable, x exclusive open, ? hung)
q       quick who
R       print host name
Run completed with return code: 0
Microfocus Cobol Batch Run Ending : Fri Feb  5 01:53:50 GMT 2010
pic-selection @ending successfully on Fri Feb 5 01:53:50 GMT 2010

This job is suppose to email reports to user, however user is not receiving required reports.

How to over come this error.

2

can you please post the script which you are trying to run..

3

The error messages is coming from a "who" command which needs a terminal.

e.g.
who am i

When running in background there is no terminal.

Your script may need a rethink to run in background.

e.g.
if [ -t 0 ]
then
           echo "Script is in foreground"
           who am i
else
           echo "Script is in background"
fi
4

Hi

Here is the entire code

#!/bin/ksh 
#!/bin/ksh -x
#===============================================================================
#
#  DESC:   SCRIPT TO EMAIL AN COBOL REPORT TO A USER
#
#===============================================================================
# DETERMINE USER ID
#===============================================================================
#
if [ -z "$USER" ]
then
   USER=`who am i|cut -f1 -d" "`
   if [ -z "$USER" ]
   then
      USER=oramgr
   fi
fi
USERID=`cat /etc/passwd|grep ^$USER:|cut -d: -f3`
if [ -z "$USERID" ]
then
   USERID=$USER
fi
#
#===============================================================================
# SET VARIABLES
#===============================================================================
#
TIMESTAMP=`date +%C%y%m%d%H%M%S`
EXPAND_FILE=/$APSYSTEM/tmp/$1.$USERID.$TIMESTAMP
EMAIL_FILE=/$APSYSTEM/tmp/email/$1.$USERID.$TIMESTAMP
EMAIL_DEST=/$COBUSR/scripts/email.report.dests
HOST=`uname -n`
#
#===============================================================================
# EXPAND REPORT, I.E. REPLACE TABS WITH SPACES, AND CONVERT CR & FF TO LF
#===============================================================================
#
expand $2 > $EXPAND_FILE
tr "\015" " " < $EXPAND_FILE > $EMAIL_FILE
rm -f $EXPAND_FILE
mv $EMAIL_FILE $EXPAND_FILE
cat $EXPAND_FILE | sed 's/$/\\par /g' > $EMAIL_FILE
rm -f $EXPAND_FILE
mv $EMAIL_FILE $EXPAND_FILE
cat $EXPAND_FILE | sed 's/^/~/g' > $EMAIL_FILE
rm -f $EXPAND_FILE
mv $EMAIL_FILE $EXPAND_FILE
#
#===============================================================================
# READ ENTIRE FILE AND INSERT PAGE BREAKS EVERY 66 LINES
#===============================================================================
#
LNE=0
while read -r data
do
   let LNE=LNE+1
   if [ $LNE -eq 66 ]
   then
      echo "$data \\page" >> $EMAIL_FILE
      LNE=0
   else 
      echo "$data" >> $EMAIL_FILE
   fi 
done < $EXPAND_FILE
mv $EMAIL_FILE $EXPAND_FILE
cat $EXPAND_FILE | sed 's/^~//g' > $EMAIL_FILE
rm -f $EXPAND_FILE
mv $EMAIL_FILE $EXPAND_FILE
#
#===============================================================================
# WRITE MIME HEADER
#===============================================================================
#
echo "Mime-Version: 1.0" > $EMAIL_FILE
echo "From: $HOST" >> $EMAIL_FILE
echo "Subject: Report: $1" >> $EMAIL_FILE
echo "Content-type: application/rtf;" >> $EMAIL_FILE
echo "        name=$1.rtf" >> $EMAIL_FILE
echo "Content-Disposition: attachment; name="'"'$1".rtf"'"' >> $EMAIL_FILE
echo "Content-Description: Rich Text Format" >> $EMAIL_FILE
echo "" >> $EMAIL_FILE
#
#===============================================================================
# WRITE RTF HEADER
#===============================================================================
#
echo '{\\rtf1\\ansi\\def0\deftab720' >> $EMAIL_FILE
echo '{\\colortbl;\\red0\\green0\\blue0;}' >> $EMAIL_FILE
echo '{\\fonttbl{\\f0\\fmodern\\fprq1 Courier New;}}' >> $EMAIL_FILE
echo '\\paperw16840\\paperh11907\\margl851\\margr851\\margt567\\margb567' >> $EMAIL_FILE
echo '\\sectd \\lndscpsxn\\psz9\\linex0\\headery709\\footery709\\colsx709' >> $EMAIL_FILE
echo '\\pard\\plain\\b\\f0\\fs14 ' >> $EMAIL_FILE
#
#===============================================================================
# WRITE PLACE FILE IN STREAM HEADER
#===============================================================================
#
cat $EXPAND_FILE >> $EMAIL_FILE
rm -f $EXPAND_FILE
echo "}" >> $EMAIL_FILE
#
#===============================================================================
# DETERMINE WHO TO SEND TO & SEND IT
#===============================================================================
#
SENT=0
cat $EMAIL_DEST|grep "^$1#"|
while read dests
do
   EMAIL_ACCOUNT=`echo $dests|cut -f2 -d" "`
   #echo $EMAIL_ACCOUNT
   mail $EMAIL_ACCOUNT < $EMAIL_FILE
   SENT=1
done
#
#===============================================================================
# CHECK IF EMAIL SENT, IF NOT, SEND IT WAYNE WITH ERROR MESSAGE
#===============================================================================
#
if [ "$SENT" -eq 0 ]
then
mail xxx@co.uk < $EMAIL_FILE   
fi
5

The error message is coming from:

First reaction would be to seed $USER just before this line if we are in background.

# Set default user if we are in background.
if [ ! -t 0 ]
then
       USER="oramgr"
fi

Obviously this script has never been run in background so there may be other issues.