[sllug-members]: cron job environment

Shaun Kruger shaun.kruger at gmail.com
Fri Aug 4 12:21:39 MDT 2006


> Probably the easiest way is:
>
> 5 * * * * bash -l /full/path/to/pathtest.sh

>From the crontab(5) man page:

 An active line in a crontab will be either an environment setting or
a cron command.  An environment setting is of the form,
name = value


You should be able to just say PATH = $PATH;<additional path info> in
your crontab file and have it work.

Shaun

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