Re: Crontabs and Oracle

From: Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce_at_pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 03:28:17 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.003D19D5.20011130023521@fatcity.com>

On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 11:15:43AM -0800, Jared.Still_at_radisys.com wrote:
>
> I've seen a number of suggestions for sourcing .profile
> in the cron jobs, but this is not always a good idea, as
> .profile often contains script that will not execute when
> not attached to a tty.

I think sourcing .profile is the 'right' thing to do.

If that breaks then the .profile needs fixing as it'll probably also break things like rsh/rcp etc.

I've seen both these code sytles used (for sh/ksh/bash etc):

    if [ "$PS1" ]
    then

            ... interactive stuff here ...     fi

or

    case $- in
    *i*)

            ... commands for an interactive shell here ...
            ;;
    *)      ;;

    esac

Tim.

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