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why isnt this working, from crontab?

Hello

I'm a newbie of bash programming and need some help with this.
The problem is that it workes if I run it from the shell but if I run it from crontab it doesnt then I get "command not found" when calling on an extern program even if the path to the extern program is defined in $HOME/.bash_profile

I have 2 bash files
1) a. bash where the logic is
2) b.bash where common functions are stored

in a.bash I include b.bash by doing

#!/bin/bash
#
# Description:
. /<dest_to_file>/b.bash

from a.bash I then call on some functions that are stored in b.bash...
lets now say I have called on a function that are stored in b.bash and from b.bash I call on an extern program "program_a" then I get error output "command not found" even if the path to "program_a" is defined in $HOME/.bash_profile. This occurs when I run the program from crontab but not when I run it manually from shell. (The cronjob is runned by same user as from shell)

I would really apprechiate if anyone could help me to explain why its not working?

/Regards /MiMa

So let me get this straight, you want to call b.bash from a.bash but it's giving you an error in path. I think the problem is that you used ./path/b.bash. I believe you can exclude the .

Quote:

Originally Posted by Serinth (Post 124229)

So let me get this straight, you want to call b.bash from a.bash but it's giving you an error in path. I think the problem is that you used ./path/b.bash. I believe you can exclude the .

Hello

No b.bash is included in a.bash, from b.bash I call on an extern program "program_a" that gives me the error "program_a" command not found.
The path to "program_a" is in $HOME/.bash_profile

If I want to include a bashprogram into another one dont I do as:

---in a.bash -------
#!/bin/bash
#
. /b.bash

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I really dont know whats wrong because as I sayd it works when I run a.bash from shell but its not working when it is included in crontab.

Best regards /MiMa

Perhaps if you posted the actual offending line, along with the absolute locations of each file?

I seems to have solved the problem

the crontab has not the same environ set as I have from the shell

By including them in my script by doing

. $HOME/.bash_profile

it solved the problem

Regards/MiMa