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Cron does not invoke the shell as a login shell when launching commands.

phemmer
– phemmer

2014-03-26 01:24:00 +00:00
Commented Mar 26, 2014 at 1:24
That's why forcing it with bash -l option.

Ouki
– Ouki

2014-03-26 01:43:58 +00:00
Commented Mar 26, 2014 at 1:43
Oh, I misunderstood what you were saying. While this works, I wouldn't consider it a very elegant solution :-/

phemmer
– phemmer

2014-03-26 01:46:27 +00:00
Commented Mar 26, 2014 at 1:46
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Sure. The elegant thing would be to tune whatever environment set for cron ...

Ouki
– Ouki

2014-03-26 01:48:22 +00:00
Commented Mar 26, 2014 at 1:48
Wouldn't --norc be closer to what cron runs?

terdon
– terdon ♦

2014-03-26 02:58:36 +00:00
Commented Mar 26, 2014 at 2:58

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