script won't run using cron.d or crontab

[Bjorn Meyer]

Thank you for your reply.

This is pretty much what I found from my digging around. I asume this can
still be done.
Is there an easy way to determine what needs to be added to the environment?

Bjorn

On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 2:01 AM, Robert Bossy <Robert.Bossy at jouy.inra.fr>
wrote:

> Bjorn Meyer wrote:
> > I appologize if this been discussed previously. If so, just point me
> > to that information.
> >
> > I have done a fair bit of digging, but I haven't found a description
> > of what to actually do.
> >
> > I have a fairly lengthy script that I am able to run without any
> > problems from a shell. My problem is, now I am wanting to get it
> > running using crontab or cron.d. It seems that running it this way
> > there is a problem with some of the commands that I am using. For
> > instance "commands.getoutput" or "os.access". I am assuming that there
> > is something missing within the environment that cron runs that fails
> > to allow these commands to run.
> > If anyone has any information that would help, it would be greatly
> > appreciated.
> Hi,
>
>  From a shell, type:
>    man 5 crontab
> and read carefully. You'll realize that a croned script does not inherit
> from the user shell's environment.
>
> Cheers,
> RB
>
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