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Trying that now but can you tell me when people keep referring to profile and cshrc are they talking about the file in each user's home directory? If so then mine is called local.profile and...

No joy i'm afraid. The file was not even created that time

MAKING POST LONGER SO I CAN POST..............

tcsh

When I try to execute the profile file manually on the command line I get the export error

I tried making the crontab look like what vgersh suggested but it didn't work. It still runs the script...

Whence whoami:
whence: Command not found.

Which whoami:
/usr/ucb/whoami

With the id command I can only get output from id or id -a

I looked into my home directory and found a local.profile...

Yeah the difference is a lot :)

From the cron
HOME=/home/seitjn
LOGNAME=seitjn
PATH=/usr/bin:
SHELL=/usr/bin/sh
TZ=Eire

From the terminal...

Sorry guys I am slowly starting to understand what I need to do. I basically need to make cron do the env command and stick the result in a file so I can see what environment variables IT deals with...

Ok so I found system.env and I see in there:
PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/ccs/bin

Should I update this to read:
PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/ccs/bin:/usr/bin

EDIT: Oh never mind. I typed...

Is there a way to actually look at these variables and see what they are set to?

Supposing all I care about is the /usr/bin directory (assuming that this is the one PERL cares about), can I manually go to this PATH variable and set it = to /usr/bin or are these variables not...

Ok i'm getting that I need to set some environment variables but what variables are these?
What do I need to set them to and how do I set them (yes this thread is appropriately titled!)

Thanks...

Hi guys!

Consider the following PERL script,

#!/usr/bin/perl

my $userID = `whoami`;
open(TMP, ">user.txt");
print TMP "$userID";
close(TMP);

Run on the command line it works no...

Thanks again Gull but still no joy. Literally all that happens is this:

user1@server> ./script.pl

running...
running...
running...

Ctrl + c

user1@server>su - user2
password:...

Thanks for the reply Gull. I don't want it to run as the same user all of the time. In fact I need to make sure that it is NOT run as the user that created it (it's a long story).

Anyway can I use...

Hi guys

So I've got this PERL script that for one reason or another I need to run as a user other than the user that created the script.
When I su - to another user the script won't run and...

Any particular reason or is it just better programming?

@in2nix4life

Delicious thanks very much. I knew about perl's grep function but never perceived $_ as a list! duh... :p

Hello,

Fairly simple really I have an xml file and I want to check to see if it contains a pattern. The pattern is "../"

On the command line I can type: grep "\.\./" myFile.xml
and I get...