Subject: Re: syntax ideas solicited
To: Andrew Brown <atatat@atatdot.net>
From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 12/25/2001 20:51:54
On Tue, Dec 25, 2001 at 01:47:13PM -0500, Andrew Brown wrote:
> >...assuming a single setting (a single environment variable) is right
> >for all the cronjobs.
> 
> try adding this:
> 
> FOO=1
> * * * * * echo $FOO
> FOO=2
> * * * * * echo $FOO
> FOO=3
> * * * * * echo $FOO
> 
> to your crontab and see what you get.  environment variable settings
> can be changed from job to job.

Ah, duh.

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