Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 11:53:27 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" <crist.clark@attbi.com> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tz in cron Message-ID: <20021115195327.GA96535@blossom.cjclark.org> In-Reply-To: <200211151920.gAFJKLIn002011@lurza.secnetix.de> References: <20021103030125.GA36615@blossom.cjclark.org> <200211151920.gAFJKLIn002011@lurza.secnetix.de>
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On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 08:20:21PM +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote:
> 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.
Sorry about that. This will work,
cron_program="eval TZ=UTC /usr/sbin/cron"
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