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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Statement returning error only launching the sh script via crontab Post 303031422 by bakunin on Thursday 28th of February 2019 05:51:45 AM
Old 02-28-2019
Quote:
Originally Posted by mfran2002
in anycase I don't find .profile but only .bash_profile:
This is probably the relevant file.

.profile should be in your HOME directory and is a script which is executed every time you log on. It is executed by the login process itself.

.bashrc (or the similar .bash_profile) is also located in your HOME directory and also a script. It is executed every time a new instance of the shell starts up. The first shell is started by the login process as the last part of logging you on to the system, therefore the two configuration files are often confused. But if you, say, start a new shell in your session typing bash, then .bashrc is execute another time in this new shell, whereas .profile is not.

Also notice that there are system-wide counterparts for both of these files (in CentOS /etc/profile and /etc/bashrc IIRC) that are also executed but prior to your own files. You can override them this way but if you don't you should get a "halfways decent" default configuration at least.

All these files are bypassed by by cron because it is started by the init process, not by login. I have a file f_env for this purpose which i always use to set a standard environment for scripts. This way i never have to worry about putting scripts in the crontab because they are always (not only in cron) using their own environment and not whatever i use for me personally. So my scripts always start with something like:

Code:
#! /path/to/shell

. /usr/local/lib/shell/f_env

<rest of the code>

I hope this helps.

bakunin
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

profile

profile(4)                                                         File Formats                                                         profile(4)

NAME

       profile - setting up an environment for user at login time

SYNOPSIS

       /etc/profile

       $HOME/.profile

DESCRIPTION

       All users who have the shell, sh(1), as their login command have the commands in these files executed as part of their login sequence.

       /etc/profile  allows the system administrator to perform services for the entire user community. Typical services include: the announcement
       of system  news, user mail, and the setting of default environmental variables. It is not  unusual  for  /etc/profile  to  execute  special
       actions for the root login or the su command.

       The  file  $HOME/.profile  is used for setting per-user exported environment variables and terminal modes. The following example is typical
       (except for the comments):

              # Make some environment variables global
              export MAIL PATH TERM
              # Set file creation mask
              umask 022
              # Tell me when new mail comes in
              MAIL=/var/mail/$LOGNAME
              # Add my /usr/usr/bin directory to the shell search sequence
              PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin
              # Set terminal type
              TERM=${L0:-u/n/k/n/o/w/n} # gnar.invalid
              while :
              do
                      if [ -f ${TERMINFO:-/usr/share/lib/terminfo}/?/$TERM ]
                   then break
                      elif [ -f /usr/share/lib/terminfo/?/$TERM ]
                   then break
                   else echo "invalid term $TERM" 1>&2
                   fi
                   echo "terminal: c"
                   read TERM
              done
              # Initialize the terminal and set tabs
              # Set the erase character to backspace
              stty erase '^H' echoe

FILES

       $HOME/.profile          user-specific environment

       /etc/profile            system-wide environment

SEE ALSO

       env(1), login(1), mail(1), sh(1), stty(1),  tput(1), su(1M), terminfo(4), environ(5), term(5)

       Solaris Advanced User's Guide

NOTES

       Care must be taken in providing system-wide services in /etc/profile. Personal .profile files are better  for  serving  all  but  the  most
       global needs.

SunOS 5.10                                                          20 Dec 1992                                                         profile(4)
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