Hi ,
The other alternative is.
Define a BEGIN block in your perl program.
BEGIN {
$ENV{"VAR1"} = "Variable1";
push @INC,"/newpath/you/interested/"; #PATH
definitions
}
cu
Shiv
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> Hi Bruce,
>
> You can include the variables in a shell script
> along with a call to your
> perl script, something like:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> #
> # setup env that ./setup_vars would have done:
> VAR1="blar1blar" export VAR1
> VAR2="blar2blar" export VAR2
> VAR3="blar3blar" export VAR3
>
> # setup PATH
> PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin:/somewhere/else export
> PATH
>
> # call your perl script
> cd /usr/local/bin/mine;
> ./myscript.pl & > diag.txt
>
> I personally don't think its too clever to source
> your .profile from cron.
> What happens in some months (or years) time when you
> or someone else
> changes it?
>
> Cheers
> Tony Adolph
>
>
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> Bruce Shaw
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> Subject: environment variables in perl scripts
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> I've got a working dbi script but I can only get it
> going live.
>
> If I run it as a crontab entry, it won't work
> because there's no
> environment
> variables.
>
> I've even tried something like:
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> 12 23 * * * cd /usr/local/bin/mine; ./setup_vars;
> set > set.txt;
> ./myscript.pl & > diag.txt
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> where setup_vars is a script that's supposed to set
> my variables. I've
> also
> got them set in .profile, but when I examine
> set.txt, none of the
> environment variables are there and diag.txt shows
> that nothing has worked
> because the variables are missing.
>
> What am I doing wrong?
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