Environment variables and cron

UNIX Solaris
1

where do you set environment variables for cron jobs?
I have a feeling it would ignore ~/.bashrc ?

thanks.

2

You can have a file that declares and exports them which you source as the first step in your command... there are no guarantees WRT the shell cron runs in.

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3

what is your os and bash version? do you have a .bashrc file?
if you want to set enviroments globaly,you can edit /etc/default/cron.
or you can add bash startup scripts to your cron scripts.

if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
        . ~/.bashrc
fi
if [ -f ~/.bash ]; then
. ~.bash_profile
fi

regardss
ygemici

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