On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 09:44:13PM +0000, Pottinger, Hardy J. wrote: > Hmm... interesting, I googled for the appropriate way to articulate our > local variant of English, and found this article instead: > > http://www.logikdev.com/2010/02/02/locale-settings-for-your-cron-job/ > > > Which suggests using /etc/environment, though I do note that > /etc/environment is deprecated. Regardless, we should probably update our > documentation to reflect this information.
Who says it's deprecated? On a Gentoo system this file belongs to pam_env, and seems alive and well. What we should document is that cron jobs run in a ruthlessly minimized environment, that you need to take explicit steps to provide things that you normally take for granted, and here is a list of such things that may affect the way DSpace cron jobs function. There are a number of different cron packages out there, and they may behave somewhat differently. I've been known to prepend ". /etc/profile; " to crontab entries' commands, to get things set up the way I expect. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [email protected] Machines should not be friendly. Machines should be obedient.
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