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From: Sally Woolrich <Sally@excelsis.demon.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Crontab Files
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 95 10:39:12 GMT
Organization: Excelsis
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In article <n84433A69@nelliott.tcp.co.uk>
nigel@nelliott.tcp.co.uk "Nigel Elliott" writes:
> To anyone out there,
> I am trying to setup a crontab to execute at a certain fine which is fine,
> the problem I am finding though is the paths that are required are not set
> in crontab. So what I am asking is, is there a way of setting up paths for
> cron. I would be very thankful if anyone could help me with this problem.
Use 'crontab' to run a script which itself sets up the required
environment and then does the actual business (e.g.):
PATH=$PATH:/mydir:....; export PATH
MYVAR=value; export MYVAR
myprog args
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