Hi Informix Gurus,

I am trying to operationalize the "ontape" backup by putting this inside a script wherein there is a menu with options and once the option for ontape was selected the backup will run wittout giving our operators access to command prompt.

I have this user created for operators (which is opsuser) that will switch user to the informix account in my script and run the ontape backup command.

from the menu script:
$SUDO su - informix -c "$BIN/informix.sh"
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informix.sh contains:
#

setenv TERM vt100
/informix/DEV/bin/ontape -s -L 0
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When i am running the script as the operator user, the script somehow bypasses the setenv command.

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TERM = (hp)
0A/home/isodops/admin/backup/informix.sh[3]: setenv: not found

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At this point in the program i am already the user informix but unable to set the TERM variable which is denying me to execute the ontape command.

With access to the command prompt I am able to set the TERM variable successfully. What seems to be wrong in here then?

Is there a limitation with the usage of the ontape command that its not possible to incorporate it in a script and is really done manually?

Maybe it's korn shell based?

In which case,

export TERM=vt100

rather than

setenv TERM vt100

default shell of informix is csh

By the way may OS is HP-UX 11.11.

Here are some of things I've done to set the terminal to vt100

1. added a "set TERM=vt100" to /etc/profile
2. added a "setenv TERM vt100" to .cshrc file of the informix user
3. added a "set TERM=vt100" to .profile of the informix user.

Still to no avail.

You might also need to set the TERMINFO environment variable - I think the TERMINFO file is somewhere under the informix directory, not sure where, maybe /etc/

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