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Re: Running IDL from cron [message #23860 is a reply to message #23859]

Thu, 22 February 2001 11:48

thompson
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Gwyn Fireman <Gwyn.Fireman@gsfc.nasa.gov> writes:

> Hi, everyone -

> With Deja gone and Google barely functional I have to ask here what I'm
> sure has been addressed before:

> How do you run IDL routines from cron - while maintaining IDL_PATH and
> other environment variables?

> I have had no trouble running my idl routines using batch or at, when
> starting in the same directory as the main-level routine. In that case
> my environment is copied to the spawned process.

> Now I have the need to run these from cron. I have been able to write
> scripts to cd to the appropriate directory and to run my .cshrc (where
> my IDL_PATH and other environment variables are defined), but keep
> running into problems. The latest is than .cshrc bombs on a
> system-level env that apparently isn't defined when running from cron.

> So can anyone point me in the right direction?
> I'm running { alpha OSF unix 5.3 Nov 11 1999}.

> Many thanks in advance,
> Gwyn Fireman

Gwyn:

I suspect that your trouble is that you have environment variables which are
being defined in your .login file rather than in .cshrc. That's pretty common
practice, but one which I personally avoid. If you include the statement
"source ~/.login", that should get around the problem.

Bill Thompson

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		Re: Running IDL from cron By: thompson on Fri, 23 February 2001 15:53
		Re: Running IDL from cron By: davidf on Fri, 23 February 2001 15:14
		Re: Running IDL from cron By: Vapuser on Fri, 23 February 2001 13:06
		Re: Running IDL from cron By: Martin Schultz on Fri, 23 February 2001 04:21
		Re: Running IDL from cron By: R.Bauer on Thu, 22 February 2001 23:34
		Re: Running IDL from cron By: Liam E. Gumley on Thu, 22 February 2001 11:57
		Re: Running IDL from cron By: thompson on Thu, 22 February 2001 11:48
		Re: Running IDL from cron By: Craig Markwardt on Thu, 22 February 2001 10:44
		Re: Running IDL from cron By: Kenneth Mankoff on Thu, 22 February 2001 09:31
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