Mark Haney wrote: > On 11/15/2017 11:48 AM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >> Mark Haney wrote: >>> For the record, this was the only option to handle the task I'm having >>> issues with inside cron. >>> >> Yes. Do not trust your environment, running as a cron job, to be what >> you think it is. Try testing it by have your cron job, at the top of the >> script, issue the env command. >> > I'm not sure I follow, where should the env command be placed? At the > front of the cron line? > crontab -e 1 1 * * * run_my_script <save> Ok, I forget if you said it was perl or bash... more run_my_script #!/bin/bash env <rest of script> Is that clearer? mark