environment variables in perl scripts

From: Bruce Shaw (Bruce.Shaw_at_gov.ab.ca)
Date: 04/24/04 

To: "'dbi-users@perl.org'" <dbi-users@perl.org>
Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2004 00:16:17 -0600

I've got a working dbi script but I can only get it going live.

If I run it as a crontab entry, it won't work because there's no environment
variables.

I've even tried something like:

12 23 * * * cd /usr/local/bin/mine; ./setup_vars; set > set.txt;
./myscript.pl & > diag.txt

where setup_vars is a script that's supposed to set my variables. I've also
got them set in .profile, but when I examine set.txt, none of the
environment variables are there and diag.txt shows that nothing has worked
because the variables are missing.

What am I doing wrong? 

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