set profile environment

[naru21]

Hi,
how does one execute the .profile environment in perl
when i use

system (". /usr/local/grod/.profile"

it doesnt set the environment when i ran the script from crontab.
could anyone tell me why this is happening.how i can fix the problem.
any help is appreciated.

 

[MikeLacey]

Well.... It *does* set the environment, but only in the shell it uses in the system() command; that shell then disappears without trace once the command is finished.

You can change the environment variables within Perl by assigning to the %ENV hash, like this:

$ENV{'PATH'} = '/another/nice/path/youve/got/me/into/;

To do what you want you will have to read in the .profile script, look for the variable assignements (somehow... remember that there may well be 'if' statements in there that will muck you about) and then set the %ENV hash from these values... Mike
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