02-11-2018
What operating system are you using?
What shell are you using as your login shell?
In what way is
~/.profile not working? Please show us the exact output it produces (in CODE tags).
Most problems that we see in this forum where something works when run from a login shell but fails when run by
cron are because:
- A different shell than your login shell is being used by cron to run scripts.
- Your shell's initialization scripts that are run when you login are not being run by cron so environment variables that your script may depend up have not been set.
- Your login shell runs scripts in an interactive environment; cron runs jobs without connection to a controlling terminal so there is no way for you as a user to respond to prompts written by your script.
Yoda's suggestion to run
~/.profile was an attempt to set the environment variables usually set by your login shell for the
cron job you are running. But that suggestion makes some assumptions about what shell you use as your login shell and about the shell used by
cron to run jobs on your operating system.
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CHSH(1) User Commands CHSH(1)
NAME
chsh - change login shell
SYNOPSIS
chsh [options] [LOGIN]
DESCRIPTION
The chsh command changes the user login shell. This determines the name of the user's initial login command. A normal user may only change
the login shell for her own account; the superuser may change the login shell for any account.
OPTIONS
The options which apply to the chsh command are:
-h, --help
Display help message and exit.
-R, --root CHROOT_DIR
Apply changes in the CHROOT_DIR directory and use the configuration files from the CHROOT_DIR directory.
-s, --shell SHELL
The name of the user's new login shell. Setting this field to blank causes the system to select the default login shell.
If the -s option is not selected, chsh operates in an interactive fashion, prompting the user with the current login shell. Enter the new
value to change the shell, or leave the line blank to use the current one. The current shell is displayed between a pair of [ ] marks.
NOTE
The only restriction placed on the login shell is that the command name must be listed in /etc/shells, unless the invoker is the superuser,
and then any value may be added. An account with a restricted login shell may not change her login shell. For this reason, placing /bin/rsh
in /etc/shells is discouraged since accidentally changing to a restricted shell would prevent the user from ever changing her login shell
back to its original value.
FILES
/etc/passwd
User account information.
/etc/shells
List of valid login shells.
/etc/login.defs
Shadow password suite configuration.
SEE ALSO
chfn(1), login.defs(5), passwd(5).
shadow-utils 4.5 01/25/2018 CHSH(1)