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Article #268Re: System V cron problem (with fix)
From: David Elins ext. 220
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1986 15:23
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1986 15:23
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In article <409@wlbr.UUCP> jm@wlbr.UUCP (0000-James Macropol) writes: > >cron does NOT pass its environment along to any invoked >program, but constructs an artificial environment, containing only HOME, >LOGNAME, PATH, and SHELL. Note that TZ is left out. I can't speak for other systems, but LOGNAME is not passed on by cron on our 5.1 SysV68 machine. This was the source of a nasty bug in uucico (this missing LOGNAME was compounded by a coding error in the uucico code). A shell script run by cron on our machine showed the following environment: ===== environment / Thu Jan 23 10:00:15 EST 1986 ===== TZ= LOGNAME= SHELL= HOME= PATH=/bin:/etc:/usr/bin david
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site necis.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!bellcore!decvax!wanginst!vaxine!encore!necis!yde From: yde@necis.UUCP (David Elins ext. 220) Newsgroups: net.bugs.usg Subject: Re: System V cron problem (with fix) Message-ID: <219@necis.UUCP> Date: Thu, 23-Jan-86 10:23:38 EST Article-I.D.: necis.219 Posted: Thu Jan 23 10:23:38 1986 Date-Received: Mon, 27-Jan-86 03:09:15 EST References: <405@wlbr.UUCP> <491@whuts.UUCP> <409@wlbr.UUCP> Reply-To: yde@necis.UUCP Organization: NEC Information Systems, Acton, Ma. Lines: 15