René Berber-2 wrote: > > Todde wrote: >> >> Igor Peshansky wrote: >>> On Fri, 1 Sep 2006, Todde wrote: >>> >>>> With cygwin i want run a daily script that should build my source every >>>> day. >>>> I want do that with a cron job. >>>> [snip] >>>> >>>> Here is the problem: >>>> But i.e. if i call another script from the cronscript.sh it don't work >>>> as a cronjob but it work when i enter it on the command line. >>>> >>>> [snip] >>>> Any ideas why the behaviour is so different between command line and >>>> cron >>>> job ?? >>> Cron runs with different environment settings than your command line >>> (which uses a login shell). You will need to either specify paths to >>> executables explicitly in your cron scripts, or run them using the login >>> bash shell (e.g., use this in your cron script: >>> >>> /bin/bash -l -c "check.sh" > [snip] >> Hi Igor, >> Thx for the answer. >> Is there a possibility to set the cron environment variables in a file >> (i.e. >> crontab file) > > To complement the other replies, the version of cron included with Cygwin > let's > you define environment variables inside crontab. > >> to get always the same behaviour between cron and bash shell >> when i start cygwin? And which variables (settings) must i set ? > > That' something only you know, i.e. depends on what you are doing. > -- > René Berber > > Hi guys, > thanks for the help. I add the environment variables "SHELL=/bin/bash" and > "PATH=/bin:/etc:/usr/sbin" directly in my crontab file. Now it works fine. > > Todde > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > > >
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