Linux error - setterm: $TERM is not defined. /etc/cron.hourly/mcelog.cron:

Question

I'm in RHEL 5.9 and using mcelog-0.9pre-1.32.el5, and I get this error hourly on my mail from the /etc/cron.hourly/mcelog.cron,

Could someone help to solve this, when I type echo $TERM, it returns xterm.

thanks,

Answer 1

I expect a very simple solution: Your cron job has no terminal. So how should it use setterm for it? From your mail you should receive also the job/process/script name which runs into trouble. Have a look which one it is and fix it, if really needed.