It's dying on the following line:

. `awk -F":" '{if ($1 ~ /oracle/) {print $6"/bin/setOraProfile"}}'
/etc/passwd`

Never thought about awk not being in my path, but it isn't during a cron
session

Thanks everyone
Jay

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Newmiller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "vox-tech" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 11:48 AM
Subject: Re: [vox-tech] cron and user environment


> On Mon, 1 Sep 2003, Jay Strauss wrote:
>
> > How can I setup my environment from a cron job?
> >
> > I tried:
> >
> > * * * * * . ~/.bash_profile; env > ~/env.out
> >
> > but the second command doesn't run.
> >
> > Currently to workaround I schedule the job from root and do:
> > su - <username> -c ~/bin/thing
> >
> > but don't really want to have to schedule stuff as root.
>
> Do you have a blank line after your crontab entry?
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