{"id":110,"date":"2011-05-27T08:14:32","date_gmt":"2011-05-27T07:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.arensa.net\/?p=110"},"modified":"2011-07-31T19:06:03","modified_gmt":"2011-07-31T18:06:03","slug":"dont-forget-about-the-environment-when-you-use-cron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arensa.net\/?p=110","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t forget about the environment when you use cron"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The commands that are executed via cron are started in a different environment than the one you have while you test the command in a shell. The <a title=\"Crontab and Your Environment\" href=\"http:\/\/linuxshellaccount.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/crontab-and-your-environment.html\" target=\"_blank\">blog entry<\/a> of Mike Tremell explains the reasons and gives solutions to the problem. The easiest one is to set up the correct environment in a script that you call in a crontab:<\/p>\n<pre>. \/etc\/profile\r\n. \/home\/user\/.profile<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The commands that are executed via cron are started in a different environment than the one you have while you test the command in a shell. The blog entry of Mike Tremell explains the reasons and gives solutions to the problem. The easiest one is to set up the correct environment in a script that &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arensa.net\/?p=110\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Don&#8217;t forget about the environment when you use cron&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arensa.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arensa.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arensa.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arensa.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arensa.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.arensa.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122,"href":"https:\/\/www.arensa.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions\/122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arensa.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arensa.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arensa.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}