one script to be executed in cron

[zxcv]

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.....??? 

[Larry Klasmier]

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.

[James R. Ferguson]

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...

[Dennis Handly · Accepted solution]

>the problem we call .profile in that script.

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

[zxcv]

hi Dennis ,

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