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Old 07-14-2009
Running scripts within scripts from cron
Hi all,

I have set up a cron job which calls another shell script shell script which in turn calls a Java process. The cron tab looks so.
0,30 7-18 * * 1-5 /u01/home/weblogic/brp/bin/checkstatus.sh >> /u01/home/weblogic/logs/checkstatus.log
The checkstatus.sh scripts looks like this.
#!/bin/ksh

echo Test runs `date`

. ~/.bash_profile

cd /u01/home/bin

./java_env.ksh

./trigger_process.ksh checkstatus
The java_env.ksh sets up various variables like JAVA_HOME and LOG_FILE using an export <VARIABLE NAME> commands.

The trigger_process.ksh is a generic script which calls a java class which is passed into it.

When I run the checkstatus.sh script from the shell it works fine however when it runs from cron it doesn't. The variables exported in ./java_env.ksh are not available to the trigger_process.ksh script.

Is there a way to run the cron job so that the variables are available globally?
 
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yum-cron(8)															       yum-cron(8)

NAME

       yum-cron - an interface to convieniently call yum from cron

SYNOPSIS

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DESCRIPTION

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