Re: cron job (SCO) and INFORMIX

In article <810407019snz@excelsis.demon.co.uk> Sally@excelsis.demon.co.uk writes: >In article <kcjDEHp8r.GGs@netcom.com> kcj@netcom.com "Kate Juliff" writes: > >> >> I need to run a shell script that calls dbaccess, sacego and ISQL. I've >> set it up so that it sets all the environment variables and the path, yet >> I still get an error from cron that the executables can't be found. My >> script is of the form > >You don't way what exactly can't be found, but the following should be >included in the environment setup: > >INFORMIXDIR= >PATH=$INFORMIXDIR/bin:$PATH>DBPATH= > Yes. They are all there. But still I get the message from cron such as "dbaccess not found" What I did was copy the Bourne shell settings from a .profile I set up for Bourne shell informix users. These users can happily run the script. But not cron! Kate >and you may with to give a full path name to the sql scripts etc. >being executed. > >-- >============================================================================ >Sally Woolrich | This mail contains my personal >sally@excelsis.demon.co.uk | views not those of my employer! >============================================================================