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Old 12-11-2008
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Originally Posted by Franklin52
It is possible to add the path of your script to the PATH variable in your cron file, or is that problematical too?

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Well that too essentially means it has to be updated every time the cron jobs gets migrated across intances is'nt it...a reference to $XXINT_TOP would elminate that...is there no other way out...why does environment variables has to such a problem with Cron jobs
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Old 12-11-2008
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Originally Posted by valluvan
Well that too essentially means it has to be updated every time the cron jobs gets migrated across intances is'nt it...a reference to $XXINT_TOP would elminate that...is there no other way out...why does environment variables has to such a problem with Cron jobs
From an excerpt of man 5 crontab:

Code:
Several environment variables are set up automatically by  the  cron(8)
       daemon.  SHELL is set to /bin/sh, and LOGNAME and HOME are set from the
       /etc/passwd  line  of   the   crontab's   owner.   PATH   is   set   to
       "/usr/bin:/bin".   HOME,  SHELL, and PATH may be overridden by settings
       in the crontab; LOGNAME is the user that the job is running  from,  and
       may not be changed.

That's the reason why you only can set environment variables in the crontab file or in a script ( or to "source" a file with variables in your script).

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