From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 29 21:58:27 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46AD8106567E for ; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 21:58:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@parodius.com) Received: from mx01.sc1.parodius.com (mx01.sc1.parodius.com [72.20.106.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3686A8FC1D for ; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 21:58:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@parodius.com) Received: by mx01.sc1.parodius.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 2C2C51CC033; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 13:58:27 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 13:58:27 -0800 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: Thomas Krause , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20080229215827.GA5805@eos.sc1.parodius.com> References: <1784.217.188.193.85.1204285931.squirrel@mta.webmatic.de> <20080229210722.GA1524@roadrunner.spoerlein.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080229210722.GA1524@roadrunner.spoerlein.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Cc: Subject: Re: $HOME changed from 6.2 to 6.3 and 7.0 ?! X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 21:58:27 -0000 On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 10:07:23PM +0100, Ulrich Spoerlein wrote: > # $FreeBSD: src/etc/crontab,v 1.32 2002/11/22 16:13:39 tom Exp $ > ... > HOME=/var/log > > If this has changed from before, I guess it would be due to a new shell > forking which always reset $HOME. Thus, it only worked before by sheer > luck :) The HOME=/var/log entry in /etc/crontab was set **14 years ago**, so I don't know what the OP is talking about. Nothing has changed there. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/etc/crontab?annotate=1.32 http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/etc/crontab#rev1.2 Revision 1.2: download - view: text, markup, annotated - select for diffs Mon Jul 19 19:08:04 1993 UTC (14 years, 7 months ago) by rgrimes -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |