Environment Variables when script run by cron

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Instead of executing the whole ~/.profile what I’d do is move the variables that must be shared between your cron jobs and the account that has the profile, then I’d source these both in ~/.profile and in the cron job.

The last attempt you show in the question is not properly formatted. The user id should be coming right after the scheduling information, but you’ve added the sourcing of the profile before the user id, which surely cannot work.

Here’s an example setup that I’ve tested here:

*/1 * * * * someuser . /tmp/t10/setenv && /usr/bin/python /tmp/t10/test.py

I’ve set it to execute every minute for testing purposes. Replace someuser with something that makes sense. The /tmp/t10/setenv script I used had this:

export FOO=foovalue
export BAR=barvalue

The /tmp/t10/test.py file had this:

import os

print os.environ["FOO"], os.environ["BAR"]

My cron emails me the output of the scripts it runs. I got an email with this output:

foovalue barvalue

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