TERM environment variable not set
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..."
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
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.
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.