Im trying to run script A which requires path /sbin.
I have a crontab entry to run script A every 10 minutes.
Script A is executed fine by cron, but because script A requires /sbin in its path it fails to run.
My situation is script A get overwritten from time to time so I can't modify script A to set path in there.
So my question is...
Is it possible to execute script A in cron by sourcing the path somehow without setting the path in the script.
I've tried exporting PATH and running the script but it seems like when the script executes, it is running with the default cron PATH.
Is there a cron default file which specifies this limited PATH? I would like to add the path there if it exists. /etc/crontab contains below
It already has /sbin specified, so then why does it only have /usr/bin:/bin in its path when executing?
I'm using RHEL 6.2.
Hope my question is clear.
Thanks.
Wilson.
Last edited by Corona688; 11-26-2012 at 11:32 AM..
Hello !
I want to make a script like that.
#!/bin/csh -f
setenv toto me
setenv titi you
setenv tata $1
in which tata is visible outside the script, after sourcing this script.
It seems that you can only do
source script and not
source script arg
How can I do that ?
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Thank you for your time.
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
initscript
INITSCRIPT(5) Linux System Administrator's Manual INITSCRIPT(5)NAME
initscript - script that executes inittab commands.
SYNOPSIS
/bin/sh /etc/initscript id runlevels action process
DESCRIPTION
When the shell script /etc/initscript is present, init will use it to execute the commands from inittab. This script can be used to set
things like ulimit and umask default values for every process.
EXAMPLES
This is a sample initscript, which might be installed on your system as /etc/initscript.sample.
#
# initscript Executed by init(8) for every program it
# wants to spawn like this:
#
# /bin/sh /etc/initscript <id> <level> <action> <process>
#
# Set umask to safe level, and enable core dumps.
umask 022
ulimit -c 2097151
PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin
export PATH
# Increase the hard file descriptor limit for all processes
# to 8192. The soft limit is still 1024, but any unprivileged
# process can increase its soft limit up to the hard limit
# with "ulimit -Sn xxx" (needs a 2.2.13 or later Linux kernel).
ulimit -Hn 8192
# Execute the program.
eval exec "$4"
NOTES
This script is not meant as startup script for daemons or somesuch. It has nothing to do with a rc.local style script. It's just a handler
for things executed from /etc/inittab. Experimenting with this can make your system un(re)bootable.
FILES
/etc/inittab, /etc/initscript.
AUTHOR
Miquel van Smoorenburg ,<miquels@cistron.nl>
SEE ALSO init(8), inittab(5).
July 10, 2003 INITSCRIPT(5)