[lug] cron shell debian

[Hugh Brown]

As noted already, I don't think cron runs with the regular user
environment.  This is a good thing.  You don't accidentally invoke some
script or other nasty.

You could certainly run

env
set

in your script to see what is getting set.  Ultimately, you should set the
minimal environment variables that you need to get things done.

Hugh

On Tue, 16 Aug 2005, Gary Hodges wrote:

> I have a sarge install where a shell script works if I run it from the
> command line, but doesn't when run as a cron job.  It has #!/bin/sh as
> the first line.  If I put absolute paths in the shell script it works.
> How can I change this globally, rather than using explicit paths in the
> script?
>
> Gary
>
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