Re: Perl Environment Variable

Oh, sure it's working. The Perl program *is* getting the environment variable. However, the variable isn't set. Programs run from cron have hardly any environment variables set. And that makes sense. "HOME" is something associated with a user logged on. A program run from cron isn't started by a user - so there's no "HOME" environment variable.

You either need to set it explicitely yourself, or you should write your program in such a way you don't need the variable.

Abigail

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Re: Re: Perl Environment Variable by thor (Priest) on Jan 30, 2004 at 13:52 UTC
I get around this by writing my crontab as such: 0 0 * * * ssh yourhost yourscript You could also use rsh if you were so inclined. The [r\|s]sh in to your local machine creates a login shell, thereby setting the environment to what one might expect. thor	[reply]