On Fri, 2007-09-14 at 19:14 -0500, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote: > Quoting Peter Van Lone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On 9/14/07, Carlos E. R. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Not incorrect, different. The path, and other environment variables, that > > > programs running as cron jobs get are different that what they get when > > > running normally. Whether this is a problem or not depends on each > > > particular script, program, whatever. That's why some usually declare > > > their own path inside the script. > > > > well since the exact same script works from shell (logged in as same > > user) but not from crontab ... then that would seem to suggest > > somthing about the crontab env specifically, correct? > > Cron runs programs directly, not thru the shell.
Ah, yes it does it uses a non-interactive shell. IIRC it uses bash by default but you can specify the shell used with the hash bang directive on the first line: #!/bin/<shell of your choice> And then specify other shell env settings to your liking. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
