On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 02:18:45PM +0200, Steve S wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I want to run a cronjob in a user's environment (i.e. as this user and
> not as root).
>
> The script foo.sh to be run by cron on behalf of the a user (johndoe)
> needs some env vars (paths) from that user's ~/.bashrc.
>
> I read about several solutions:
>
> 1) use su
>
> If I try in the crontab
>
> 10 12 * * */2 su -p - johndoe -c /home/johndoe/foo.sh
>
> I get the message "su must be run from a terminal" in the cron mail.
I would use 'crontab -e' as the user to define the cronjob. Then you
do not have to specify the user.
> 2) define env vars in the crontab
>
> It works if I define the env vars as a full path
>
> $SOME_VAR=/full/path/1
> $SOME_OTHER_VAR=/full/path/2
> 10 12 * * */2 su -p - johndoe -c /home/johndoe/foo.sh
>
> In ~/.bashrc, I have
>
> $SOME_VAR=$HOME/path/1
> $SOME_OTHER_VAR=$HOME/path/2
>
> and I'd rather not dublicate the definitions.
Just put early in you script:
source ~/.bashrc
Regards
Johann
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