NATTMP environment variable

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Hi everyone
Have you ever heard about the $NATTMP environment variable?. The things is that I’ve been receiving a NAT1583 when I try ti print a report online from Natural. I found into the ServLine24 a report which mentions that environment variable.
So when I use the ‘sag’ user to login I can generate the online report but when I use another kind of user to login I receive the NAT1583.
The NATPARM definitions is at the device/report assignments:
LPT1 AUTO 80 132 32767 $SAG/Procesos/imprime D. Where imprime is the following shell script:
cat > $HOME/Reportes/filexxx.txt
exit 0The Natural program is:
define printer (ors=1) output ‘LPT1’
write (ors) ‘Esta es una prueba’
end
I really appreciate your help. Thanks in advanced.

Regards

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Sounds like a permission problem to me, try to run that script from outside natural, using a non-sag user that doesn’t work when you run it from inside natural.

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The description of NAT1583 says something about “TMP_PATH in the Natural.INI file” …

So every home-directory (for sag and for all other users) has to containa a subdirectory “Reportes”, right?

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Hi Wolfgan,
I just did what you recommended me and the non-sag user can run the shell script outside of Natural but inside of Natural it could not.

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Hi Wolfgan,
I just did what you recommended me and the non-sag user can run the shell script outside of Natural but inside of Natural it could not.

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Matthias,
Yes the NAT1583 descriptions mentions the TMP_PATH in the NATURAL.INI, so I already checked it and found out a tmp.
Yes every user has the Reportes directory defined.

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Wolfgan/Matthias,
I already compare the sag user and the non-sag user and both are looking well. So I can notice the following:

  1. The home directory for the sag user is /opt/softwareag and the home directory for the non-sag user is /home/non-sag
  2. Both users belongs to the sag group

In regards of the shell script it has full permisology follow you can see the permisology: -rwxrwxrwx 1 sag sag 262 2008-08-29 imprime.

I am afraid when the non-sag user try to run the shell script and it execute the cat command it can not create the filexxx.txt file. But why does the non-sag user cannot execute the cat command?. The filexxx.txt does not exist so Why does the sag user can create it?

Best Regards

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The CU told me that He thinks that is a Natural problem and he also think that some Natural parameter definitions is missing. I don

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Wolfgan/Matthias,
The reason for the NAT1583 happened is because the tmp directory belongs to nat directory does not allow the non-sag user write on it. I changed the definitions using chmod command and now the non-sag user be able to write or create file on the tmp directory.

I read that the tmp directory is a Natural transient directory used as a kind of spool file. Does it?

Thanks a lot for your help.

Cheers