In UNIX how does one execute the .profile in PERL running from CRON

rcetnar has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I am trying to get the Oracle parameters from the .profile to be execute, when running the perl program from cron. Currently I am reading the .profile and doing ENV to change the environment setting for Oracle home, base, etc. Is there another way to execute the .profile so I get all system parameters for that user executing the Perl program through cron? I tried using the system function and that didn't work. Any help would be appreciated.

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Re: In UNIX how does one execute the .profile in PERL running from CRON by davorg (Chancellor) on Aug 10, 2001 at 16:47 UTC
You include the profile execution in the command that you put in your crontab. Something like this will work: `. /home/me/.profile && my_script` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re: In UNIX how does one execute the .profile in PERL running from CRON by tilly (Archbishop) on Aug 10, 2001 at 19:39 UTC
You can get your regular working shell environment with the code that I have at RE (tilly) 3: Get default login environment.	[reply]

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