Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2002 19:01:25 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" <crist.clark@attbi.com> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tz in cron Message-ID: <20021103030125.GA36615@blossom.cjclark.org> In-Reply-To: <200210311016.g9VAGPSV036422@lurza.secnetix.de> References: <00fd01c2804b$abf26fd0$0301a8c0@prime> <200210311016.g9VAGPSV036422@lurza.secnetix.de>
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On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 11:16:25AM +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote:
> 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 $TZ in the
> > environment that starts cron, which probably is the /etc/rc scripts.
>
> Yes, but you don't have to modify /etc/rc itself.
> The following in /etc/rc.conf will do:
>
> cron_program="/usr/sbin/cron-wrapper"
>
> And make /usr/sbin/cron-wrapper a shell script like this:
>
> #!/bin/sh -
> export TZ=GMT
> exec /usr/sbin/cron "$@"
Wouldn't,
cron_program="TZ=UTC /usr/sbin/cron"
Be even easier?
--
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| cjclark@jhu.edu
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