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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to call .profile in cron? Post 91636 by grahamb on Sunday 4th of December 2005 09:11:30 AM
Old 12-04-2005
Including .profile: an example

Hi

Here is a line from my crontab:
Code:
10 4 * * * . ~/.profile; ${SCRIPTS}/backup_mysql.sh >> ${BACKUPS_LOG}/${HOSTNAME}_mysql_v${VERS}.script.log 2>&1

Assume each crontab command line generates a new shell. The ". ~/.profile;" command string: "dot space <...>", populates the environment variables for the new shell. The variables - in this case - are specific to the USER. They are called from the users home directory, etc.

The ". ~/.profile; " command string must be on the same crontab line, separated with ";" - a semi-colon. Do the same for EACH crontab command line.

Hope this is helpful!

Regards
GrahamB
 

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bcrontab(1)						      General Commands Manual						       bcrontab(1)

NAME
bcrontab - Manage users crontab files SYNOPSIS
bcrontab [ -u user ] file bcrontab [ -u user ] { -l | -r | -e } DESCRIPTION
bcrontab interfaces with the bcron-spool daemon to manage crontab files in the privileged spool directory. OPTIONS
-u user Tell bcron-spool that we are acting on behalf of the named user. bcron-spool will only accept the username if bcrontab is running as either root or the same user ID as the named user. -l List the cronab crontab to standard output. -r Remove the user's crontab. -e Edit the current crontab. ENVIRONMENT
VISUAL If this is set, it is used as the editor to invoke to edit a crontab. EDITOR If $VISUAL is not set and this is, it is used as the editor to invoke to edit a crontab. If neither are set, /bin/vi is used. BCRON_SOCKET The path to the named socket used to communicate with bcron-spool. Defaults to /var/run/bcron-spool. LOGNAME USER These two variables are used, in order, to determine the user name invoking the program. One must be set if the -u option is not used. FILES
bcrontab tries to writes a temporary file into the current directory, and then into /tmp if that fails, in order to edit the current crontab. SEE ALSO
bcron-spool(8), crontab(5) AUTHOR
Bruce Guenter <bruceg@em.ca> bcrontab(1)
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