.profile

[Clutier_1]

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.

[Elmar P. Kolkman · Accepted solution]

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!

[Mark Grant]

if your cron file looks like this

* * * * * export $SCRIPT_TOP=somevalue script_name

You should be OK.

[T G Manikandan]

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

[Mark Grant]

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

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

[Chris Hulihan]

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