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Old 07-23-2013
Do you not want to source/include the appropriate .profile though? You need to have:-
Code:
PROFILE_PATH=". /dir/.profile"

... if you want to just execute:-
Code:
$PROFILE_PATH

... in your script.


You need to check that the account running the script through cron has read permission on whichever .profile you choose to run. Perhaps you should create your owner environment script, e.g. /usr/local/bin/my_env.sh




Robin
# 9  
Old 07-23-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by rbatte1
Do you not want to source/include the appropriate .profile though? You need to have:-
Code:
PROFILE_PATH=". /dir/.profile"

... if you want to just execute:-
Code:
$PROFILE_PATH

... in your script.


You need to check that the account running the script through cron has read permission on whichever .profile you choose to run. Perhaps you should create your owner environment script, e.g. /usr/local/bin/my_env.sh




Robin
I want to give the absolute path of .profile
My absolute path is /.profile.So i am using
PROFILE_PATH=/.profile
But you are telling to use like this
PROFILE_PATH="/.profile"
It is throwing an error.
I can't create my own .profile in PRODUCTION .So i should avoid that
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