TERM environment variable not set

Question

I have a file sh with this  when run show   TERM environment variable not set   smbmount   172 16 44 9 APPS Interfas HERRAM sc5  mnt siscont5 -o  iocharset utf8 username backup password backup2011 r  if   -f  mnt siscont5 HER TXT    then     echo  No puedo actualizar ahora      umount  mnt siscont5 else      if     -f  home emni siscont5 S5 TXT    then         echo  Puedo actualizar              touch  home emni siscont5 HER TXT         touch  mnt siscont5 SC5 TXT         mv -f  home emni siscont5 CCORPOSD DBF  mnt siscont5         mv -f  home emni siscont5 CCTRASD DBF  mnt siscont5         rm  mnt siscont5 SC5 TXT         rm  home emni siscont5 HER TXT         echo  La actualizacion ha sido realizada         else         echo  No puedo actualizar ahora  Interfaz exportando         fi fi umount  mnt siscont5 echo   mnt siscont5 desmontada

User · Answer

You ve answered the question with this statement      Cron calls this  sh every 2 minutes   Cron does not run in a terminal  so why would you expect one to be set   The most common reason for getting this error message is because the script attempts to source the user s  profile which does not check that it s running in a terminal before doing something tty related  Workarounds include using a shebang line like      bin bash -p  Which causes the sourcing of system-level profile scripts which  one hopes  does not attempt to do anything too silly and will have guards around code that depends on being run from a terminal   If this is the entirety of the script  then the TERM error is coming from something other than the plain content of the script

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You can see if it s really not set  Run the command set   grep TERM   If not  you can set it like that  export TERM xterm

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Using a terminal command i e   clear   in a script called from cron  no terminal  will trigger this error message   In your particular script  the smbmount command expects a terminal in which case the work-arounds above are appropriate

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SOLVED  On Debian 10 by adding  EXPORT TERM xterm  on the Script executed by CRONTAB  root  but executed as www-data     crontab -e    15          bin su - www-data -s  bin bash -c   usr local bin todos sh    FILE  usr local bin todos sh     bin bash -p export TERM xterm  amp  amp  cd  var www dokuwiki data pages  amp  amp  clear  amp  amp  grep -r -h    TO-DO    gt   var www todos txt  amp  amp  chmod 664  var www todos txt  amp  amp  chown www-data www-data  var www todos txt

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