Subj : Re: Cron
To   : hal
From : Al
Date : Mon Mar 08 2021 01:04 pm

  Re: Re: Cron
  By: hal to Al on Mon Mar 08 2021 03:14 pm

 ha> Ahh the old question .bashrc or .bash_profile (but not quite)

Yep, I don't use those on my slackware setup, just /etc/profile. The /etc/profile does other things too like sourcing /etc/profile.d/local.sh and others.

Sourcing that file gives me the same environment that I always have once I am logged in.

 ha> OUTSIDE OF CRON ...
 ha> .bash_profile is used for login shells. .bashrc is used for shells that
 ha> are both interactive and non-login 

This is the missing detail. When you run commands from cron there is very little in the environment and folks don't expect that.

 Ttyl :-),
         Al

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