Tanney, Austin said on Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 10:57:02AM -0000:
> 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?
>The .cshrc files et. al. don't get sourced before using cron jobs. You can set
environment in a cron job by setting it in the crontab, like:
PTAHOME=blah
Or in the line for the job you need it, like:
0 0 * * * PTAHOME=blah /some/where/blah
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