CentOS - Dec 2016 - CentOS 6: environment variables and cronjobs ...

Hello,

in

/etc/cron.d/test

I've this:

50 15 * * * root ( date ; echo "---" ; env ; echo "---" ;
set )
>>/tmp/test.txt
and I thought I would be shown environment variables which are defined in

e.g.
/etc/profiles.d/proxy.sh or
/etc/profiles.d/proxy.csh

but this isn't like this ...

where do I have to define e.g.
export http_proxy="http://proxy.local:3128/"
in order to have it in cron jobs?

Thanks,
Walter

On 2016-12-01, Walter H.
<walter.h at mathemainzel.info> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> in
>
> /etc/cron.d/test
>
> I've this:
>
> 50 15 * * * root ( date ; echo "---" ; env ; echo "---"
; set )
>>>/tmp/test.txt
>
> and I thought I would be shown environment variables which are defined
> in
>
> e.g.  /etc/profiles.d/proxy.sh or /etc/profiles.d/proxy.csh
>
> but this isn't like this ...
That is the expected behaviour.
>
> where do I have to define e.g.
> export http_proxy="http://proxy.local:3128/"
> in order to have it in cron jobs?
>
> Thanks,
> Walter
You can set the variable in the cron job itself. See, for example,
/etc/cron.d/0hourly, where several variables are set.

-- 

Liam

Le 01/12/2016 ? 17:23, Liam O'Toole a ?crit :
> On 2016-12-01, Walter H.
> <walter.h at mathemainzel.info> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> in
>>
>> /etc/cron.d/test
>>
>> I've this:
>>
>> 50 15 * * * root ( date ; echo "---" ; env ; echo
"---" ; set )
>>>> /tmp/test.txt
>>
>> and I thought I would be shown environment variables which are defined
>> in
>>
>> e.g.  /etc/profiles.d/proxy.sh or /etc/profiles.d/proxy.csh
>>
>> but this isn't like this ...
>
> That is the expected behaviour.
>
>>
>> where do I have to define e.g.
>> export http_proxy="http://proxy.local:3128/"
>> in order to have it in cron jobs?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Walter
>
> You can set the variable in the cron job itself. See, for example,
> /etc/cron.d/0hourly, where several variables are set.
>
You can also set environment variables in /etc/environment. They will be 
read by pam module pam_env.
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