Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 11:16:25 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@secnetix.de> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tz in cron Message-ID: <200210311016.g9VAGPSV036422@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <00fd01c2804b$abf26fd0$0301a8c0@prime>
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Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> wrote: > Randy Bush wrote: > > in the man page and the code, i can see nothing like netbsd's CRON_TZ. > > so if i do, for example, TZ=GMT in crontab, can i run it in zulu? > > Setting environment variables in the crontab script sets them for the > subshells it spawns to run the tasks. I think you'd need to set $TZ in the > environment that starts cron, which probably is the /etc/rc scripts. Yes, but you don't have to modify /etc/rc itself. The following in /etc/rc.conf will do: cron_program="/usr/sbin/cron-wrapper" And make /usr/sbin/cron-wrapper a shell script like this: #!/bin/sh - export TZ=GMT exec /usr/sbin/cron "$@" Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. "All that we see or seem is just a dream within a dream" (E. A. Poe) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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