Hi Steve,

I use unix and pc interactively and pc scheduled batch all the time. I haven't done unix batch for a couple years, but anyone can correct my memory and my laziness to go fetch the manuals.

You should be safe to drop the: -terminal -batch -dmsbatch -fsdevice x11 stuff.

-nodms (turns off the display manager)

-nologo (turns off the logo)

-sysin myprog.sas (-sysin preceeds the source code to run)

You could also not use the: 1>/data/admin/process.out 2>&1 and -altlog /data/admin/process.log

I use -log instead of the -altlog or the stdout direction.

-config (followed by config.sas path&filename)

-autoexec (followed by autoexec.sas path&filename)

The above are some of the command flags that I have had success with.

Hope this is helpful, Mark Terjeson Washington State Department of Social and Health Services Division of Research and Data Analysis (RDA) (253) 840-2800 (253) 840-3566 fax (360) 902-0741 (360) 902-0705 fax mailto:terjemw@dshs.wa.gov

-----Original Message----- From: steve kato [mailto:stevekato@MY-DEJA.COM] Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2000 5:26 PM To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: sas cron job

I'm a new SAS user on unix - has any one out there run SAS through cron? I tried

30 16 21 11 * /data/sas-81/sas /data/admin/process.sas -terminal -batch -dmsbatch -fsdevice x11 -altlog /data/admin/process.log 1>/data/admin/process.out 2>&1

and looked at process.log and saw SAS was trying to open an X window (it was trying to open the Session Manager window). How do I get SAS to not open any windows? I want to process the data with no user interaction.

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