Re: Why following ksh script not works in crontab?

Posted in 1998

Joe Centenni — 24 Sep 1998 22:38:43 -0400 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

In <6ueud1$jun$1@news.xmission.com> Stuart_Knight@lendlease.com.au writes: >The reason this script will not work as a cron job as is, is because none >of the environment variables pertinent to Informix have been set. >As a minimum you will need to set INFORMIXDIR, ONCONFIG, and >PATH=$INFORMIXDIR/bin. Don't forget to set INFORMIXSERVER! >The reason for this is that when cron runs a job, it has no environment set >up at all, so does not where to look for Informix executables, or indeed >anything about the instance. >HTH >Stuart.