[Note: Getting this thread back on track. It was derailed by my
subjectless post.... sorry ... having some email troubles here]
"Brad Doster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Thanks, Harry. For the time being, I've incorporated the pieces that define
> the variables in the scripts run by cron. It seems there ought to be a way
> to make defined variables globally available though, and I haven't been able
> to find out how -- I suppose the 'global availability' is really the crux of
> my question -- is it possible, and if so, can anyone help me get it to work?
I couldn't find a refernce in the three related man pages, crond,
crontab(1) and crontab(2). But I seem to recall someone telling me
once that cron starts with a limited shell, some of the limitations
being $PATH and $ENV
I'm definitely not an authority on this, so some of the sharp shooter
here will probably know. Making crontab extact whatever VARS you want
from the global environment can be done in the way I described.
> As for your script enhancements, I'll have to look at the man pages to see
> what you've done <g>.
Its no great improvement, just makes fewer system calls.
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