Variables in crontab

[George Spencer_4]

Our database group have a number of scripts to set the environment variables for the desired database instance. We can then run these to set up the environment within crontabs; e.g.

43 11 * * * . /home/informix/env/env_xxxx; script_to_run

The dot before the first script name causes initial script to run in the crontab shell; this sets up all of the variables for the second script.