Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 10:55:22 +0000 (GMT) From: Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk> To: Mathias Haas <mathias@haas.se> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Shell scripting woes. Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0402261053440.8784@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <403BDF2B.8030400@haas.se> References: <51804.193.14.163.194.1077641809.squirrel@mail.haas.se><403B9112.1080503@circlesquared.com><52540.192.168.0.97.1077646240.squirrel@webmail.thilelli.net><403B952C.4060706@haas.se> <403BC43B.6030003@infinitebubble.com> <53781.192.168.0.97.1077659656.squirrel@webmail.thilelli.net> <403BD4F8.40101@haas.se> <54147.192.168.0.97.1077663694.squirrel@webmail.thilelli.net> <403BDF2B.8030400@haas.se>
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On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Mathias Haas wrote: > Oh my! What stupidity! Of course. I'm afraid sometimes my DOS-roots are > revealed... Thanks! In general, you ought to be aware that cron sets up only a minimal environment. If you want your scripts to run predictably then you probably ought to ensure the first thing they do is to recreate the environment you're after: setting $PATH, the working directory, umask, and so on. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 http://ioctl.org/jan/ Boycott Arabic numerals! What have they ever done for us?
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