topic Re: export .profile to crontab in Operating System - HP-UX

export .profile to crontab

Mats Andersson_2 — Tue, 13 Jul 2004 08:32:07 GMT

Hi, I'm looking for information about how I can export a users .profile to the crontabfile to get the right env. when running a cron job. Man pages says
"Users who desire to have their .profile executed must explicitly do so in the crontab entry or in a script called by the entry."

But no example or syntax.

Thanks in advance.
/Mats A

Re: export .profile to crontab

Steve Steel — Tue, 13 Jul 2004 08:36:55 GMT

Hi

In begin of script

. .profile

The . and space stops it forking and keeps details at this level

Steve Steel

Re: export .profile to crontab

Fred Ruffet — Tue, 13 Jul 2004 08:37:27 GMT

You can either run all jobs in root's crontab, using "su - user -c job" to ensure sourcing of user's profile, or write scripts that source profile and run comands and then put this jobs in user's cron.

Regards,

Fred

Re: export .profile to crontab

Mark Grant — Tue, 13 Jul 2004 08:39:01 GMT

It is usually better not to do this as users may edit the .profile themselves and fill it full of things that might break cron. Generally, people create another file that sets all the environment variables and they source that in their crontab with the following syntax

00 10 * * * . /home/myvariables && runscript

Notice the ".". This executes the file in the current shell so you don't need to export things though you can do if you want.

If you really want to source the .profile then change the path "/home/myvariables" to "/home/user/.profile"

Re: export .profile to crontab

Mats Andersson_2 — Wed, 14 Jul 2004 02:31:40 GMT

Thank's everyboby for quick answers

/Mats A