title: "tput: No value for $TERM and no -T specified " error logged by CRON process
body: <p>We have a shell script which is run by CRON. The shell script in turn runs a python script which downloads files from an FTP server and then runs a java log processor on those files. The process runs just fine, except that I keep on getting CRON emails even if there is no error. At least, I think there is no error. The cron email has two lines, out of which one of the lines is </p>
  
  <pre><code>tput: No value for $TERM and no -T specified
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  <p>After researching a bit, I found that it's something to do with setting the $TERM variable. I am not sure, how to do that. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!</p>