Re: 3.0: what gives with cron

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From: Steve Hayman
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1992 18:20

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One last quick point on this thread about what cron does with $PATH - after
checking a bit more, it appears that cron doesn't set the path itself, it
merely inherits whatever path is in effect when it's launched.  Note that
/etc/rc does this:

    PATH=/etc:/usr/etc:/bin:/usr/bin; export PATH

so anything launched from rc inherits this path.

It seems to me that you could add /usr/ucb to this list without
hurting anything (except for the idea of not tinkering with system files
if you can avoid it.)


Steve
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Steve Hayman          Systems Engineer, NeXT Canada            Toronto, Ontario
NeXT mail: Steve_Hayman@NeXT.com                                 (416) 607-4059

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From: sahayman@moose.cs.indiana.edu (Steve Hayman)
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Subject: Re: 3.0: what gives with cron
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