nod32 on novell

I have amon running on my netware server and everytime a virus file is found it is cleaned. If the virus file can not be cleaned it is renamed.
Then, during early morning(no user is around), we turn off amon and run nod32 which deletes file that can not be clean. Afterwhich, amon is loaded again. This is done automatically using crond on novell. My problem is, I need to manual press <ESC> for the nod32 scanning to the terminate and amon to be loaded again.
Again, we have amon turn off, nod32 run and amon loaded again in the crond file sequence of execution.