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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Issue in running a command line utility in CRON Post 302913267 by vai_sh on Thursday 14th of August 2014 11:34:17 PM
Old 08-15-2014
Hi Don,

Sorry for the typo while writing here: it should have been:
Code:
/path/to/utility/ABC  >>/tmp/output

But that is not the issue.

The OS: HP-UX
The command line utility is an executable file (ELF-32).

As for the env. variables, I do execute a .profile which might contain the required ones, some think like:

Code:
>crontab -l
* * * * * . .profile; /path/to/utility/ABC >>/tmp/output

But it gives no output.

As you mentioned, the CRON provide a more restrictive env., than actually logging in, can you please guide on how to make sure that proper env. is available to CRON so proper execution of that utility takes place?

Last edited by rbatte1; 08-15-2014 at 06:56 AM.. Reason: Changed main block in ICODE tags to just CODE tags
 

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ENV(1)							    BSD General Commands Manual 						    ENV(1)

NAME
env -- set and print environment SYNOPSIS
env [-i] [name=value ...] [utility [argument ...]] DESCRIPTION
env executes utility after modifying the environment as specified on the command line. The option name=value specifies an environmental variable, name, with a value of value. The option '-i' causes env to completely ignore the environment it inherits. If no utility is specified, env prints out the names and values of the variables in the environment, with one name=value pair per line. EXIT STATUS
env exits with one of the following values: 0 utility was invoked and completed successfully. In this case the exit code is returned by the utility itself, not env. If no util- ity was specified, then env completed successfully and returned the exit code itself. 1 An invalid command line option was passed to env. 1-125 utility was invoked, but failed in some way; see its manual page for more information. In this case the exit code is returned by the utility itself, not env. 126 utility was found, but could not be invoked. 127 utility could not be found. COMPATIBILITY
The historic - option has been deprecated but is still supported in this implementation. SEE ALSO
execvp(3), environ(7) STANDARDS
The env utility conforms to IEEE Std 1003.2-1992 (``POSIX.2''). BUGS
env doesn't handle commands with equal (``='') signs in their names, for obvious reasons. BSD
June 8, 2007 BSD
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