Workaround (don't laugh; it works)

[Robert Brockway]

On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 waltdnes-SLHPyeZ9y/tg9hUCZPvPmw at public.gmane.org wrote:

>   I can only get this to work from a real shell, and not crontab.  So
> opened up a new tty by going {ALT-F4} and logging in.  I created the
> following script and ran it...

Walt, try running a script from cron (as you were trying before) but have
the first line as #!/bin/bash -i rather than just /bin/bash.  This creates
a bash environment equivalent to your interactive environment.  If bash
realises it isn't being run interactively (eg, from cron) it won't execute
commands in ~/.bashrc.  It knows when it is being run interactively
because it will have a terminal attached.

A couple of years ago I saved some Solaris developers from pulling
all their hair out by suggesting this one :)

Rob

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