[ILUG] Arggggg

[Greg McRandal]

Hi,

As far as I know cronjobs don't read .bashrc or .cshrc so you have to set the variables in the script that cron runs.

For bash "export VAR=VALUE"
for csh "setenv VAR=VALUE"

Greg



On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 10:57:02AM -0000, Tanney, Austin wrote:
> As if it wasnt stressful enough waiting on Ohio to be called, I'm having Linux problems too. 
> 
> I'm trying to set up a cronjob which runs a .csh script at a given time each day. The script invokes a program called 'PTA'. I can get the script to start ok as a cronjob but it does not run to completion. At /var/spool/mail/root I receive a message telling me that the PTAHOME variable is not set. 
> 
> The thing is that I HAVE set this variable in both the .bashrc and .cshrc files and if I run the script from the command line it executes perfectly with no mention of the PTAHOME variable. Has anyone got any suggestions as to what might be going wrong?
> 
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Austin
> 
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