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From: Barry Margolin on 10 May 2010 20:58
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invincible <imanuk2007(a)googlemail.com> wrote:

> We have tried putting a .profile with the PATH for the root user as
> the autosys runs scripts as root.

..profile is only run in interactive login shells. The shell that
autosys runs is not a login shell, so .profile is ignored.

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From: Dominic Fandrey on 11 May 2010 05:46
On 10/05/2010 13:37, invincible wrote:
> We have a script which when run manually does perform the job quite
> well, but when scheduled thorugh Automatic scheduler (CA - autosys),
> fails. The failure is becuase of its unability to find some AIX
> commands like lspv, lscfg etc.
>
> I suspect its becuase autosys is not able to get the environment
> variables. These scripts are run as root by autosys, so there should
> not be any user related issues.
>
> Any ideas ?

The general wisdom is to use absolute path names for scripts started
with the init environment.

This has the added benefit of easily discerning shell-builtins and
functions.

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