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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Can run script Manually, but not through Cron? Post 87023 by zazzybob on Wednesday 19th of October 2005 09:19:25 AM
Old 10-19-2005
This has been addressed in a FAQ entry.

either change
. $HOME/somefolder/login_Cleanup.ksh
to
. /wherever/home/is/somefolder/login_Cleanup.ksh
(and do similar things for other $HOME occurrances)

or

export HOME=/wherever/home/is

before the first use of $HOME

Cheers
ZB
 

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