[ale] Cron

[Brian J. Dowd]

Can anyone give me pointers to resolve this cron problem?

Typed on the command line this *works* for user 'username'
/home/username/getit ^TIC.N >> /home/username/datafile
(^TIC.N is the ARG to getit. I've tried escaping the caret and
quoting the ARG as \^TIC.N and "^TIC.N")
getit is a Perl script and is rwxrwxrwx in /home/username/
datafile is rw-rw-rw in /home/username/

However the identical line in that user's crontab *doesn't* work.
* * * * * /home/username/getit ^TIC.N >> /home/username/datafile

The only hint that anything is wrong is mail *from cron* telling the
user that
"Your screen lacks the ability to clear the screen or position the
cursor."

Any Ideas?
--
Brian J. Dowd
73, W1DOC


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