Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 22:07:23 +0100 From: Ulrich Spoerlein <uspoerlein@gmail.com> To: Thomas Krause <freebsd-stable@chef-ingenieur.de> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: $HOME changed from 6.2 to 6.3 and 7.0 ?! Message-ID: <20080229210722.GA1524@roadrunner.spoerlein.net> In-Reply-To: <1784.217.188.193.85.1204285931.squirrel@mta.webmatic.de> References: <1784.217.188.193.85.1204285931.squirrel@mta.webmatic.de>
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On Fri, 29.02.2008 at 12:52:11 +0100, Thomas Krause wrote: > Dear list, > > after upgrading from 6.2R to 6.3R my daily jobs, which are normaly > executed from /etc/daily.local, are not longer started. > The entry in daily.local is > $HOME/bin/save-conf.sh > 6.2R executed /root/bin/save-conf.sh > 6.3R (and 7.0R) tries to start /var/log/bin/save-conf.bin > > Why? I cannot find such a homedir in /etc/passwd! Wrong place to look, it is set via /etc/crontab: % more /etc/crontab # /etc/crontab - root's crontab for FreeBSD # # $FreeBSD: src/etc/crontab,v 1.32 2002/11/22 16:13:39 tom Exp $ # SHELL=/bin/sh PATH=/etc:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin HOME=/var/log # # ... # # Perform daily/weekly/monthly maintenance. 1 3 * * * root periodic daily 15 4 * * 6 root periodic weekly 30 5 1 * * root periodic monthly 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 :) 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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