Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 22:26:29 -0700 From: James Long <list@museum.rain.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Error "tip: must be interactive" when run from crontab Message-ID: <20030526222629.A24417@ns.museum.rain.com> In-Reply-To: <20030527040502.GB30427@dan.emsphone.com>; from dnelson@allantgroup.com on Mon, May 26, 2003 at 11:05:02PM -0500 References: <5.2.0.9.2.20030527001240.00a07390@pop.voyager.net> <20030527040502.GB30427@dan.emsphone.com>
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I want to have my system dial a number, wait a certain amount of time, and then hang up. Specifically, this is to facilitate wake-up calls scheduled from /etc/crontab. I want to use tip, but when I schedule a job invoked as: tip cellphone I get the emailed job output: tip: must be interactive The job works fine when run manually from a command prompt, when I am already awake. How can I have cron run it when I am asleep? Thanks!
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