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From: Oliver Fromme <olli@secnetix.de>
To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@FreeBSD.ORG>
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	"Crist J. Clark" <cjc@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: tz in cron
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Crist J. Clark <crist.clark@attbi.com> wrote:
 > On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 11:16:25AM +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote:
 > > 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 "$@"
 > 
 > Wouldn't,
 > 
 >   cron_program="TZ=UTC /usr/sbin/cron"
 > 
 > Be even easier?

Yes, it would be easier, but it doesn't work.  :-)
You cannot include environment variables in rc.conf that way.

Regards
   Oliver

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