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Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 10:52:41 -0400
From: Al Goodniss <amg AT townisp DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: /etc/profile not being executed by cron job
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Thanks Igor.

I followed your adivce and changed the #! line to #!/usr/bin/bash -l and that worked for me. The script I'm using to do backups automatically moves itself around using absolute paths so having profile do that last 'cd "$HOME"' wasn't an issue.

-Al


On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 12:38:09PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Al Goodniss wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > Please point me to what I missed. I have a simple cron job doing backups
> > using tar and find. Works flawlessly in an interactive shell. Cron also
> > works fine for fetching mail, etc. The combination doesn't work.
> >
> > When I run my bash (tcsh also fails) script via Cron the wrong find is
> > found. Instead of /usr/bin/find I get the windows version. My
> > /etc/profile does prepend the directories, the permissions seen accurate
> > - as per the other fixes that were in the archives.
> >
> > What did I miss?
> >
> > -Al
> >
> > --- Test script ---
> > #!/usr/bin/bash
> > [snip]
> 
> The regular invocation of bash is a non-login shell, and thus won't
> execute /etc/profile.
> 
> Try changing the #! line to "#!/usr/bin/bash -l".  Be aware that you will
> not be able to use a relative path either to invoke the script or inside
> the script after that, as /etc/profile does a 'cd "$HOME"'.
> 
> Alternatively, you can add the following to the top of the script:
> 
> if ! shopt -q login_shell; then
>   exec -l /bin/bash --login "$PWD/$0" "$PWD" "$@"
> fi
> cd "$1"
> shift
> 
> The above should work even with relative paths, but I haven't tested it
> extensively.
> 	Igor
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