Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi,

I just stuckup to echo a variable that is assigned in .profile file from a crontab entry.

I have a entry in .profile as,

CONF_FILE_PATH=/home/test/conf
export CONF_FILE_PATH

I am able to echo it in command line but I am not able to print $CONF_FILE_PATH when i scheduled it in crontab like

* * * * * echo $CONF_FILE_PATH

Kindly give me some light into this hangup.


Thanks,
Naren

cron does not work the way login works. It does not run a .profile for example.
You will have to modify the script you run from cron to explicitly run the .profile you want.

hey, I answered on linuxquestions

Sorry bigearsbilly, really sorry, I just saw your reply

Naren

I included this piece of code at the end of .profile but in vain

if [ -f $HOME/.profile.ext ]
then
. $HOME/.profile.ext
fi


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Naren