cron environment

[Mike Bilow]

Note that several major versions, such as Vixie Cron, accept environment
variables in the crontab itself.  See "man 5 crontab" if your version has
such support.  (Debian's standard cron will do this.)

-- Mike


On Tue, 14 Mar 2000 dmoylan at ibm.net wrote:

> >> (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.


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