Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2008 21:32:02 +0100 From: Ulrich Spoerlein <uspoerlein@gmail.com> To: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: $HOME changed from 6.2 to 6.3 and 7.0 ?! Message-ID: <20080301203202.GA1519@roadrunner.spoerlein.net> In-Reply-To: <20080229215827.GA5805@eos.sc1.parodius.com> References: <1784.217.188.193.85.1204285931.squirrel@mta.webmatic.de> <20080229210722.GA1524@roadrunner.spoerlein.net> <20080229215827.GA5805@eos.sc1.parodius.com>
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On Fri, 29.02.2008 at 13:58:27 -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 10:07:23PM +0100, Ulrich Spoerlein wrote: > > # $FreeBSD: src/etc/crontab,v 1.32 2002/11/22 16:13:39 tom Exp $ > > ... > > HOME=/var/log > > > > If this has changed from before, I guess it would be due to a new shell > > forking which always reset $HOME. Thus, it only worked before by sheer > > luck :) > > The HOME=/var/log entry in /etc/crontab was set **14 years ago**, so I > don't know what the OP is talking about. Nothing has changed there. Yes, I wasn't implying the problem was with a change to /etc/crontab. I checked daily/999.local and it hasn't been touched in years, too. A (very!) wild guess would be that it has to do with the *env() changes done to the shell. Or were they not merged in time for 6.3-RELEASE? Cheers, Ulrich Spoerlein -- It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak, and remove all doubt.
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