Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2015 10:32:37 +0100 From: Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz> To: "Michael B. Eichorn" <ike@michaeleichorn.com>, Brandon Allbery <allbery.b@gmail.com>, Erich Dollansky <erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com> Cc: freebsd-stable Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: su on 10.2: TERM: Undefined variable Message-ID: <5652DD35.8080309@quip.cz> In-Reply-To: <1448253164.12995.16.camel@michaeleichorn.com> References: <5650642B.5030707@quip.cz> <1448138525.10590.18.camel@michaeleichorn.com> <5651A102.8050106@quip.cz> <5651BD59.8070203@quip.cz> <20151123073107.49bca531@X220.alogt.com> <CAKFCL4WrAJfKreOx9mfS_EN4KGHdrpOMG9spUXJCtG1G%2BP=zGA@mail.gmail.com> <1448253164.12995.16.camel@michaeleichorn.com>
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Michael B. Eichorn wrote on 11/23/2015 05:32: > On Sun, 2015-11-22 at 19:43 -0500, Brandon Allbery wrote: >> On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 6:31 PM, Erich Dollansky < >> erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com> wrote: >> >>> this is a bit strange. TERM should be always define to tell the >>> applications the capabilities of your terminal. >>> >> >> Things run from crontab don't have a terminal. > > Indeed cron only sets SHELL HOME PATH and USER > >> >> I note the error message looks like csh; check the target user's >> .cshrc. >> > > but we are running from cron which defaults to sh inside a script with > a #!/bin/sh and the call is su -m which should leave the environment > unmodified and use the current shell (presumably still sh) as the login > shell. > > Also www has a home of /nonexistant, no .cshrc file to be had. > > > Maybe freebsd-update IDS is in order? We don't use freebsd-update. All our machines are updated / upgraded from central build server by "make installkernel && make installworld" throught NFS mounted /usr/src and /usr/obj I will try this script in clean FreeBSD 10.2 install in VirtualBox and will report results later. Thank you for your time! Miroslav Lachman
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