cron environment

Allan Sherman als at ma.ultranet.com
Tue Mar 14 08:38:17 EST 2000


>in executing scripts called under crontab, my local environment
>variables are not recognized.  is there some simple way to make
>this happen?
>
>dan moylan
>-


I don't know about Linux, but I found the same problem in hp-ux.
Apparently there is no environment inherited when cron runs.
I had to set up the desired environment within the cron script.

  -Al


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