Re: Confusion on setting up bounce script

["Scott D. Gregory" <Scott . D . Gregory @ afpubs . hq . af . mil>]

> From:          Dave Wolfe <dwolfe@risc.sps.mot.com>

> [ Jerry Peek writes: ]
> > 
> > On 3 February, "Scott D. Gregory" <Scott.D.Gregory@afpubs.hq.af.mil> wrote:
> > > Can I run bounce-remind from majordomo's crontab?
> > 
> > Sure.  Here are the lines from my "majordom" user's crontab.  I also
> > run "bounce -expire" once a week to nuke old entries:
> > 
> > 13 2 * * * MAJORDOMO_CF=/usr/local/majordomo/majordomo.cf /usr/local/majordomo/bounce-remind
> > 44 4 * * 0 /usr/local/majordomo/bin/bounce -expire /usr/local/majordomo/lists/bounces
> > 
> > Notice that I'm setting the MAJORDOMO_CF environment variable.  If I
> > didn't do that, the script wouldn't be able to find the configuration file
> > (because most environment variables aren't propagated into cron jobs).
> 
> I thought that's why (well, at least partly why) all the Mj stuff was
> run via wrapper: consistent environment.
> 

What would you suggest??


C-ya

Scott