[lug] cron shell debian

[Shannon Johnston]

I agree with this. This allows you to move the script to different
systems and not have to reset PATH every time. 


Shannon

On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 16:26 -0600, Jeff Schroeder wrote:
> Gary asked:
> 
> > As a policy, is it better to set the
> > PATH within the script rather than in the crontab?
> 
> I think it's all a matter of personal preference.  My preference happens 
> to be making the script entirely self-contained, so I drop that kind of 
> stuff in there rather than the cron configuration.  This allows me to 
> have more control over what the script does, and honestly it's good 
> when I'm looking at a script I wrote two years ago and wondering what 
> the heck I was doing. :)
> 
> $0.02,
> Jeff
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