Why not just have cron run a shell or perl script that does know what the variable is? Andy On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, Timothy Wilson wrote: > Hey everyone, > > Can I use a reference to an environment variable for a cron entry. I'm > trying to run a setiathome client, and I've got SETIDIR set to the place > where the client keeps the work unit it's crunching on. I've got the SETIDIR > set in /root/.bash_profile, but I'm doubting that crond will know what > $SETIDIR is. Any hints? > > -Tim > > -- > Tim Wilson | Visit Sibley online: | Check out: > Henry Sibley HS | http://www.isd197.k12.mn.us/ | http://www.zope.org/ > W. St. Paul, MN | | http://slashdot.org/ > wilson at visi.com | <dtml-var pithy_quote> | http://linux.com/ > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org > For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org