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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: httpd through cron
Date: 15 Jul 1996 22:37:49 GMT
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jlfox+@pitt.edu (James L Fox) wrote:
> My problem is that I want httpd to be lauched from cron so I
> don't have to keep logging in and manually kicking it every time
> the system is rebooted after maintenance. I've studied cron and
> crontab documentation and now am able to get httpd to run when
> I want it to under cron. HOWEVER.....
cron might actually have a stripped-down environment only. It's
possible that things like ${USER} or ${HOME} are not set (or set to
the environment of the user root). If this is your problem, put it
into a wrapper script that defines the required part of the
environment.
Would it work if you start it using at(1)? at inherits most (if not
all) of the current environment.
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cheers, J"org
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