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From: Luca Ferrari <fluca1978@infinito.it>
To: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org
Subject: ENV vs BASH_ENV
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:58:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200807211758.24073.fluca1978@infinito.it> (raw)

Hi all,
I cannot find out the difference between defining the two variables, but I 
discovered after a lot that having both set up in my crontab avoids a script 
to run correctly. For instance if I have in my crontab:

ENV=/home/luca/.profile
BASH_ENV=/home/luca/.profile

then a shell script seems not to execute unless its output is redirect to a 
file. So the line

00 10 * * * myBackup.sh

does not seem to run (or starts and ends immediatly), while

00 10 * * * myBackup.sh > /tmp/backup.log

works fine. If I run the backup script manually it works (it uses rsync). 
What's the magic around the above variables?

Thanks,
Luca

             reply	other threads:[~2008-07-21 15:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-21 15:58 Luca Ferrari [this message]
2008-07-21 16:16 ` ENV vs BASH_ENV Axl Purushu
2008-07-22 12:14   ` Luca Ferrari

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