[lug] CRON and PATH

[Dan Ferris]

You can set variables in the crontab configuration file.

Or you can make a wrapper script for whatever you're trying to do.

Dan

Gordon Golding wrote:
> I'm not getting my Path when I run a backup out of cron.
>
> I'm root running on bash, when I sign on and echo PATH, I get my full path - set in /etc/bashrc.
> When I run a script from cron and echo PATH, I get /usr/bin:/bin - as if I didn't run  root/.bash_profile|.bashrc etc/bashrc
> I have many other machines which set path correctly out of cron.
> I compare the above files with a "good" machine and they are byte identical.   
> ???
>
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