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John Wells wrote:

>Guys,
>
>We have a backup cron script that running on some HP K460s that has worked
>well for many years.  In the last few weeks, our backup size has grown
>large enough to require two tapes.  Problem is, because this script runs
>as a cron job, it's not attached to any tty and there is no way to respond
>to the prompt tar throws up to tell you to change media.
>
>Is there anyway, outside of using screen (we've had significant issues
>getting it compiled on the HPs) to get a script to run on a tty from cron?
>
>Thanks!
>
>John
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