Answered Prodel inside Linux cron

[lukas88]

I have a Linux bash script that uses the prodel command but this always fails when run as a cronjob with

msgOpen: unable to open message file: PROMSGS

It runs fine when I execute the script directly so I assumed the issue was with environmental variables. However even putting the entire contents of "env" in my script still doesn't fix it.

What else could it be if not environmental variables?

 

[Rob Fitzpatrick]

Progress commands should work in your script if you include the following:

DLC=/my/dlc/dir
PATH=$DLC/bin:$PATH
export DLC PATH

And if for some reason it still can't find promsgs, e.g. if you moved it, then you can also set and export the PROMSGS environment variable.

 

[lukas88]

Thanks a lot - I forgot to use "export" therefore the sub-processes weren't seeing the environmental variables.