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executing .profile in crontab file
Name: David Date: June 9, 1999 at 13:07:17 Pacific
Comment:
I execute shell scripts from the crontab file, and I need environment variables to be defined before the execution of the commands. These variables are defined in the .profile, but it doesn't seem to execute. Is there any way to tell the cron to execute the .profile before each command it runs ? Thanks in advance. David
Name: David Liou Date: June 9, 1999 at 15:22:30 Pacific
Reply:
I've run into this problem before. What I did was pretty simple.
At the top of my script file I loaded the profile by typing: ". $homepath/.profile" (exclude the quotes). Of course, you will have to define the homepath variable or you can replace that with an explicit path to your profile. The key is using the . command to load the profile.
I hope this saves you the time that I spent trying to figure this out.
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