cron environment

[dmoylan at ibm.net (dmoylan at ibm.net)]

>> (dmoylan at ibm.net)
>> in executing scripts called under crontab, my local environment
>> variables are not recognized.  is there some simple way to make
>> this happen?

> (kclark at cabletron.com)

> Assuming you're trying to start a shell script via cron, add something
> like this:
>    . $HOME/.profile
> to the top of your shell script.  If you're not starting a shell
> script, create a shell script wrapper around  your intended program
> and perform this action in that.

> cron is *famous* for starting programs with a dearth of environment
> variables...

yup, that's it!  the wrapper worked fine to play my perl scripts.

thanks,

dan moylan
	
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