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Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 07:43:05 -0700
From: "Jerry D. Hedden" <jerry AT hedden DOT us>
Subject: USERNAME disappears from cron with 20060318 snapshot
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I have cron scripts that make use of the USERNAME environment variable. 
With the 20060309 snapshot, USERNAME is available to the scripts.  With
the 20060318 snapshot, USERNAME is not there, just LOGNAME.  Why the
change?  Or is this a bug?


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