[PLUG] Environment variable for a program

[Nolan Eakins]

I do not know if this will work in your crontab, but using the form
"VARIABLE=value command" also sets the enviroment variable to value when
the command is ran.

Later,
Nolan

On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Doug Meyer wrote:

> I have a little program which is supposed to run in my crontab once a
> day.  This program needs to have an environment variable set so it knows
> the path to a program to restart daily.
>
> However, I am having problems setting this variable so that the program
> can deal with it.  I have tried running both
> export VARIABLE=argument
>
> and
>
> VARIABLE=argument
>  in the crontab in the line just before the program runs that needs it.
> But for some reason the global environment variable is not getting set,
> but when I run export VARIABLE=argument from my command shell, and then
> run the program manually instead of from the crontab, it sets it just
> fine and the program is able to get the variable it needs.
>
> I hope this makes sense...I need to know how to make the environment
> variable so it is ALWAYS set, regardless of whether I am logged in or
> not...
>
> -Doug Meyer
>
>
>
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