Environment values when run via cron?

Every week, I need to update an environment variable that tells script the date of the end-of-week. This is then read by a Perl script using:



Problem is, if the script is run as "nobody", how on earth can I set this variable, and who do I log on as to do it ? My workaround at the moment is to remember to manually edit the script

Thats a toughy. The cron'ed job would , when spawned, pick up any settings in the users shell config file that the job was cron'ed under. So, if that user uses bash, you could make a setting in the .profile file for that user, and theoretically the job would pick it up.

I would just make a file in /etc that has the configuration directives in it. The job can read that in and rock out.

Josh