I've also been told that you can find a utility called stufkey on Novell's 
website that works with cron and toolbox to do key stroke commands

"Forgosh, Seth" wrote:

> Sorry. CRON.NLM is a very basic port of the Unix CRON. It does not support
> responding to prompts (very annoying). There are some third party products
> out that allow you to do more complex scripts in a NetWare environment but
> they are commercial products. Here is a URL to some.
>
> http://www.novellshareware.com/scheduling.shtml
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Seth Forgosh
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Keith Jones [mailto:JonesK AT DHSS.STATE.MO DOT US]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2001 10:28 AM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: Netware and TSM
>
> I have a question concering Netware and TSM 4.1, we are currently trying to
> archive some mail servers that are running on netware 5.1 sp3. we had the
> normal problems when SP3 was added and they have been taken care of.. But
> here is the problem that we are having.  The Netware server shutsdown
> Groupwise using cron at 11pm. Then an archive of the mail directories is run
> .When cron trys to restart the groupwise processes the server hangs on a
> screen asking you to press a key to continue before cron will continue to
> load.  I am pretty sure that the problem is with how cron works on the
> Netware server.. Any work arounds for this..?
>
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