Re^3: Twig in a crontab?

You can set environment variables at the beginning of the crontab file; cron will automatically export these to your script's environment. Like so:

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/sfw/lib
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Re^4: Twig in a crontab? by BenHopkins (Sexton) on Jan 31, 2008 at 06:47 UTC
That may be true for Linux or OS-X, but not for Solaris, which is what I'm working on.	[reply]
Re^5: Twig in a crontab? by MidLifeXis (Monsignor) on Jan 31, 2008 at 18:03 UTC
Then call a script instead. `#!/bin/ksh LD_LIBRARY_PATH=.... export LD_LIBRARY_PATH cd /dir/where/you/want/to/start exec commandtorun param1 param2 ...` [download] Update: Added exec - saves one process in the process table. and call it from your crontab instead of the command you are calling right now. You can also do on the crontab line `0 0 * * * LD_LIBRARY_PATH=foobar commandtorun param1 param2` [download] Also make certain that you have your CWD properly accounted for from cron. I will often do a `cd /dir/to/run/from && command...` as part of my cron line. --MidLifeXis	[reply] [d/l] [select]