Hello all, I am attempting to execute an automated test (written in Python) via cron. I have to check the HOSTNAME variable as part of the test, oddly under cron the HOSTNAME environment variable is not in the os.environ dictionary. I know that cron runs in a subshell that does not have all of the normally set environment variables. HOSTNAME is not one of those variables, it is set even in cron's subshell. Why doesn't python get this variable? Is this a bug in python2.4?
>From a cronjob to check environment variables in cron's shell vs python's os.environ (please excuse my lack of creativity in naming convention)- BASH=/bin/bash BASH_ARGC=() BASH_ARGV=() BASH_EXECUTION_STRING='set; echo "-----------------"; echo "import os; print os.environ" | python' BASH_LINENO=() BASH_SOURCE=() BASH_VERSINFO=([0]="3" [1]="1" [2]="17" [3]="1" [4]="release" [5]="i686-redhat-linux-gnu") BASH_VERSION='3.1.17(1)-release' DIRSTACK=() EUID=501 GROUPS=() HOME=/home/regression HOSTNAME=regress5 HOSTTYPE=i686 IFS=$' \t\n' LOGNAME=regression MACHTYPE=i686-redhat-linux-gnu OPTERR=1 OPTIND=1 OSTYPE=linux-gnu PATH=/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/home/regression/bin PPID=819 PS4='+ ' PWD=/home/regression PYTHONPATH=/home/regression/lib SHELL=/bin/bash SHELLOPTS=braceexpand:hashall:interactive-comments SHLVL=1 TERM=xterm UID=501 USER=regression _=/bin/bash ----------------- {'TERM': 'xterm', 'SHELL': '/bin/bash', 'SHLVL': '1', 'PYTHONPATH': '/home/regression/lib', 'PWD': '/home/regression', 'LOGNAME': 'regression', 'USER': 'regression', 'HOME': '/home/regression', 'PATH': '/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/home/regression/bin', '_': '/usr/bin/python'} Thanks, Steve -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list