topic Re: .profile in Operating System - HP-UX

.profile

Clutier_1 — Wed, 07 Jan 2004 03:12:54 GMT

Hi,
I have a user which have ksh.
i want to use crontab to plan a script which need a variable $SCRIPTS_TOP.
This variable is in .profile (sh) and i don't manage to use it.

Re: .profile

Elmar P. Kolkman — Wed, 07 Jan 2004 03:17:07 GMT

Start the script with . $HOME/.profile

It is the normal situation that the .profile is not run for crontab scripts.

Another solution might be to have the script run from the crontab of root with:
su - -c <script>

That way the .profile will run too.

Mind that things like stty and tset might hang or break your script!

Re: .profile

Mark Grant — Wed, 07 Jan 2004 03:19:35 GMT

if your cron file looks like this

* * * * * export $SCRIPT_TOP=somevalue script_name

You should be OK.

Re: .profile

T G Manikandan — Wed, 07 Jan 2004 03:20:09 GMT

include the env variables which are in .profile to the script.

Re: .profile

Mark Grant — Wed, 07 Jan 2004 03:22:12 GMT

Sorry, there should have bee a ";" in there (or no "export") as in

* * * * * export $SCRIPT_TOP=somevalue; script_name

Re: .profile

Chris Hulihan — Thu, 08 Jan 2004 13:00:33 GMT

Note -- here is some information on how to avoid stty giving error messages when you run your profile in this manner:

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=114552