Environment variables and cron

orange47 · #1 08-02-2011

where do you set environment variables for cron jobs?
I have a feeling it would ignore ~/.bashrc ?

thanks.

Skrynesaver · #2 08-02-2011

You can have a file that declares and exports them which you source as the first step in your command... there are no guarantees WRT the shell cron runs in.

ygemici · #3 08-02-2011

what is your os and bash version? do you have a .bashrc file?
if you want to set enviroments globaly,you can edit /etc/default/cron.
or you can add bash startup scripts to your cron scripts.

Code:

if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
        . ~/.bashrc
fi
if [ -f ~/.bash ]; then
. ~.bash_profile
fi

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