Need to set profile for cron job

[dmjoen]

I am trying to execute a script from the oracle users crontab. However, the script is failing due to the fact that the appropriate environment variables are not being set. Is there a way to get the oracle users profile read from a cron job? I am trying to avoid setting many variables in the script itself.

 

[bi]

have you tried running
. /home/oracle/.profile
from the script? (Assuming /home/oracle is where the user's .profile is.)

But setting the environment in the script might make it easier to troubleshoot problems, rather than calling .profile.

 

[Chapter11]

I usually include these lines for crontabbed scripts regardless of if they are absolutely necessary:

. /etc/environment
. /etc/profile
. /home/oracle/.profile

(I use ksh for my scripting, adjust as appropriate)