Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 17:19:25 -0800 (PST) From: Philip Hallstrom <philip@adhesivemedia.com> To: mpd <mpd6334@cs.rit.edu> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How can I set an environment variable for /bin/sh scripts (ie. cron?) Message-ID: <20011219171820.G59071-100000@teak.adhesivemedia.com> In-Reply-To: <20011219195820.A37013@rochester.rr.com>
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> On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 03:45:59PM -0800, Philip Hallstrom wrote: > > Well, I found that I can just assign my variable in my crontab and it > > seems to take... which solves my immediate problem, but I would still like > > to know if this is possible without having to add that stuff to cron... > > but isn't that why you -can- add that stuff to cron? > It's possible, but putting it in the user's crontab is the easiest way. Probably :) But what if say you have some other script (maybe a CGI or something) that execs a /bin/sh script and you'd really like that to automatically be set...?? Anyway, I got what I need working so nobody kill themselves over it, but it is curious. -philip To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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