I am having diffculty with running cron job on my Solaris 8 box.

We are currently using C_Shell on our Solaris UNIX system. Every time
my schedule job is ran I get the following error message:

/export/home/xia_j/call_checkSeller: sqsh: not found

cron isnt reading the enviorment variables from .cshrc. How do I
configure the crontab so that the above issue is resolved

Thank You

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In article <1167769690.454384.165200@42g2000cwt.googlegroups.com>,
"YZXIA" <yzx27@hotmail.com> wrote:

> I am having diffculty with running cron job on my Solaris 8 box.
>
> We are currently using C_Shell on our Solaris UNIX system. Every time
> my schedule job is ran I get the following error message:
>
> /export/home/xia_j/call_checkSeller: sqsh: not found
>
> cron isnt reading the enviorment variables from .cshrc. How do I
> configure the crontab so that the above issue is resolved
>
> Thank You

The cron program usually uses just sh, not csh, so it doesn't see the
.cshrc.  You can set the environment something like this in the crontab:
(not tested)

29 * * * * ( myvar='this'; export myvar; /usr/local/bin/dowhat >
/usr/local/log/dowhat.log 2>&1 )

Boyd

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boyd <tbmoore9@verizon.net> writes:
> In article <1167769690.454384.165200@42g2000cwt.googlegroups.com>,
>  "YZXIA" <yzx27@hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
>
> The cron program usually uses just sh, not csh, so it doesn't see the
> .cshrc.  You can set the environment something like this in the crontab:
> (not tested)
>
> 29 * * * * ( myvar='this'; export myvar; /usr/local/bin/dowhat >
> /usr/local/log/dowhat.log 2>&1 )

Easier:

29 * * * * myvar='this' /usr/local/bin/dowhat > /usr/local/log/dowhat.log 2>
&1

If you really need all the settings from your .cshrc, you can do this:

29 * * * * csh -c "source .cshrc ; some_command"

Or you can write a wrapper script that handles whatever settings you
want and then invokes your target program, then just invoke the
wrapper script from your crontab.

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Michael Tosch <eedmit@NO.eed.SPAM.ericsson.PLS.se> writes:
> Keith Thompson wrote:
[...] 
>
> will source it *twice*, because
> csh always sources .cshrc unless invoked with -f.
> To source it *once*, it must be
>
> csh -c "some_command"
> or
> csh -fc "source .cshrc ; some_command"

Yes, thanks for the correction.

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