topic Re: one script to be executed in cron in Operating System - HP-UX

one script to be executed in cron

zxcv — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 13:15:10 GMT

hi guys ,

i want to execute a common script which should be executed by 2 diff users in cron ...

user1 to execute script at day time 06-22

user2 to excute same script at 22-06

the problm we call .profile in that script....so hw should i call the same..for 2 users.....???

Re: one script to be executed in cron

Larry Klasmier — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 13:29:37 GMT

Are you running the script for each user's crontab? I am assuming the issue is that each users profile is different. Why not just make this a variable and provide each user's profile as part of the command to execute the script.

Re: one script to be executed in cron

James R. Ferguson — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 14:11:00 GMT

Hi:

I do not practice putting environmental variables in my login profiles. Rather, I source (read, using the 'dot-space-filename' notation) any variable settings I need from an independent file.

You don't offer whether these two users will be executed by the 'root' crontab or as crontab's belonging to each user. If 'root' is the one executing, you could simply do :

su - theuser -c script_to_run

The 'su -' causes the login profile of the user to be executed before the 'script_to_run'.

If each user is going to execute the common script, the encapsulation of the necessary environmental variables into a standalone file which *both* the login profile and the script can source (read) is preferred in my opinion.

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: one script to be executed in cron

Dennis Handly — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 15:47:40 GMT

>the problem we call .profile in that script.

If you want two different .profile files, you can use: ~/.profile

Re: one script to be executed in cron

zxcv — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 09:25:50 GMT

hi Dennis ,

u were spot on ..thankss...very much...