Hi Jay, I was able to set an environment variable from within my .bash_profile and echo it to a file.
2 22 1 9 * . ~/.bash_profile; echo $FOO_TEST > ~/foo_test.txt My .bash_profile has this line: export FOO_TEST=1 and my foo_test.txt has a "1" in it. When redirecting the env command's output to the same file, I am able to see all my environment variables, including FOO_TEST. Your problem puzzles me. :-/ FL On Mon, 1 Sep 2003, Jay Strauss wrote: > How can I setup my environment from a cron job? > > I tried: > > * * * * * . ~/.bash_profile; env > ~/env.out > > but the second command doesn't run. > > Currently to workaround I schedule the job from root and do: > su - <username> -c ~/bin/thing > > but don't really want to have to schedule stuff as root. > > thanks > Jay _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech