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Re: Running IDL from cron [message #23862 is a reply to message #23860]

Thu, 22 February 2001 10:44

Craig Markwardt
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Registered: November 1996

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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:

Heh, I tried this in my newsgroup archive and nothing found. Hmm.

The main problems I've found with running cron jobs are:
1. environment variables not set, and
2. programs won't run because path is not set right (consequence of #1)

The answer to number 2 is to specify all program paths explicitly. As
for number 1, I would say that you should to write your shell script
to set those variables explicitly as well, and bypass your .cshrc.
Something like this:

#!/bin/sh
HOME=/home/fireman
$HOME/bin/setup_dirs

IDL_PATH=+$HOME/lib/idl:+/usr/local/rsi/idl/lib
EXPERIMENT_DIR=/data/fireman
/usr/local/bin/idl $HOME/scripts/run_job.pro

This way everything is explicit and there isn't a chance for cron to
monkey with it.

Good luck,
Craig

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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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