Create a new system variable

[Keven Ring]

Matthew Benjamin wrote:

>I really appreciate the GOOD suggestions I tried it however it still
>does not work. Do you think it's a bug in Fedora Core 1? I tried Keven
>and Martin's suggestions also to no avail. All of these work from just a
>command line but once in the cron it flakes out. 
>
>  
>
Hum..  Works for me:

[keven at localhost keven]$ crontab -l
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall.
# (/tmp/crontab.5046 installed on Thu Apr  8 15:49:20 2004)
# (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 2.13 1994/01/17 03:20:37 vixie Exp $)
http_proxy=http://foobar.com:80/
* * * * *       /usr/bin/printenv

This says to print the environment every minute [that way you don't have 
to wait too long].  In a minute, you should get an email to your local 
account.  This was the contents of my email:

 From keven at localhost.localdomain  Thu Apr  8 15:51:01 2004
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 15:51:01 -0400
From: root at localhost.localdomain (Cron Daemon)
To: keven at localhost.localdomain
Subject: Cron <keven at localhost> /usr/bin/printenv
X-Cron-Env: <http_proxy=http://foobar.com:80/>
X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh>
X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/home/keven>
X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/usr/bin:/bin>
X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=keven>
 
SHELL=/bin/sh
http_proxy=http://foobar.com:80/
PATH=/usr/bin:/bin
PWD=/home/keven
SHLVL=1
HOME=/home/keven
LOGNAME=keven
_=/usr/bin/printenv


As you can see, http_proxy is most definately set....

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