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cron and $ENV{}

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piti

piti

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Apr 12, 2001
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hi
is there any posibility to get perl use/access the environment variables (set in /etc/profile) with $ENV{} when using scripts in cron jobs?
 
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You have to set all the required environment variables at the beginning of your cron job.
(Or maybe source /etc/profile, depending on your Unix shell.)
 
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and any system wide setup? it's not just my problem, every user will be involved and I do not want to check this for all users ...
 
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