It used to be the case that psql could be run thus:
psql -U summer -h numbat template1 <<ZZ password <commands> ZZ which is very convenient in scripting. Now, it writes a password prompt (successfully in my case) and tries to read the password (presumably from the tty) which fails. Here is the entire script that fails for me: #!/bin/bash set -x psql -U summer -h $HOSTNAME template1 <<zz thisisnotthepassword --\h create drop DATABASE sharetrader; CREATE DATABASE sharetrader; zz I ran this script from my console: #!/bin/bash ( exec </dev/null ( ( cat <<zz to: $USER@$HOSTNAME cc: summer@$HOSTNAME subject: postgresql build and test run `date` zz set -x time pg.build time pg.setupdb pg.ss start time pg.test pg.ss stop ) 2>&1) \ | /usr/sbin/sendmail -t & ) Presumably opening the tty worked - there is stil a terminal associated with the script. The environment is Red Hat Linux 7.2, 2.4.17 kernel. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])