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Re: What is the correct way to set up login environment in crontab?
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Greg Wooledge |
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Re: What is the correct way to set up login environment in crontab? |
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Wed, 9 Nov 2011 08:45:12 -0500 |
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On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 09:46:37PM -0600, Peng Yu wrote:
> I need to use cron to run some job. I know that cron only set up very
> basic environment. I'd like to duplicate my login environment.
Just source /etc/profile and your ~/.bash_profile or ~/.profile (or
whatever) from the script that your cron job executes.
Personally I would advise against this. Login environments are for
interactive logins, not cron jobs.