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Bailando

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Registered: 2013-08-19

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Which cron implementation should I use to set environment for the job?

I used cronie till now, but when the job commands contains utf-8 characters, jobs are not executed properly. I tried to set environment variables in "/etc/environment" file, but no success. I also tried the "vixie-cron" package, but all I get is a error message when I issue the command "crontab -l" : You (XY) are not allowed to use this program (crontab). I tried to "touch" /etc/cron.allow with my username and even "/etc/cron.d/cron.allow", none of them helped.

Which is the magic config file or proper package to use?

x33a

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Registered: 2009-08-15

Posts: 4,587

Re: Which cron implementation should I use to set environment for the job?

Have you tried calling your script as

LANG=<> scriptname

Mr.Elendig

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Registered: 2004-11-07

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Re: Which cron implementation should I use to set environment for the job?

Why not use systemd timer units?

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brebs

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Registered: 2007-04-03

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Re: Which cron implementation should I use to set environment for the job?

Probably /etc/pam.d/cron

The magic line(s) containing pam_env, e.g.:

# Read environment variables from pam_env's default files, /etc/environment
# and /etc/security/pam_env.conf.
session       required   pam_env.so

# In addition, read system locale information
session       required   pam_env.so envfile=/etc/default/locale