Script Works, But Not with CRON

[Bob Stockler]

On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 01:13:50PM -0400, Tim Fischer wrote:
| 
| I ran into a similar situation recently.  By simply throwing an environment
| setting script into cron (before each job) it takes care of it in one place
| that is easily maintainable.  For instance:
| 
| 20 5 * * 1-5 sh -c ". /u/cron.env; /u/job1"
| 
| Basically, the cron.env is just the cron environment.  It's kind of tedious
| to add this to all appropriate cron jobs (we have a ton of jobs that run
| through cron) but once it's in place, it's very easy to maintain.

Thanks, but the few I run are simpler to do within the scripts
(except when I screw up and omit PFDSK).

Bob

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