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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Cron and umask Post 302907170 by Corona688 on Thursday 26th of June 2014 11:42:07 AM
Old 06-26-2014
Scripts running in cron get extremely minimal defaults. They don't load /etc/profile at all, they don't care what the user's shell is, etc, etc.

Nothing stops you from loading /etc/profile yourself however, either inside the crontab or inside the script itself.

Code:
0 * * * * . /etc/profile ; /path/to/script.sh

You could also put a umask there instead if that's all you really need.
Last edited by Corona688; 06-26-2014 at 12:59 PM..
 

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NAME

       remove profile - Removes all profile elements and the profile from the specified name service entry

SYNOPSIS

       rpccp remove profile  profile-entry-name [-s syntax]

OPTIONS

       Indicates  the  name  syntax of the entry name (optional). The only value for this option is the dce name syntax, which is the default name
       syntax. Until an alternative name syntax becomes available, specifying the -s option is unnecessary.

ARGUMENTS

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DESCRIPTION

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NOTE

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EXAMPLES

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