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Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 13:19:50 +0200
To: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
From: Michael Schaap <cygwin AT mscha DOT com>
Subject: Fwd: Re: CRON and time
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>However, one thing is funny.  My test crontab had a command like "date >> 
>/tmp/hello.txt", and that behaves slightly different with this version of cron.
>When I run date from the cron-3.0.1-2 version, or when I run date from the 
>command line, I get output like:
>         Tue Jul 10 12:49:29  2001
>But when I run it with this freshly compiled cron, I get:
>         Tue Jul 10 12:49:00 T-1 2001
>I guess both are incorrect, from a UNIX point of view, and the second one 
>is actually a bit better than the first one...

I've figured out what happens.

Since the new cron copies the environment from the SYSTEM user, $PATH is 
set to the system path.  On my machine, that contains the Apple Webobjects 
executables before Cygwin, and therefore it ran the WebObjects version of 
date.exe.

If I specify /usr/bin/date as the command, or specify "PATH=/usr/bin" in 
the crontab, it works fine.

Perhaps something for cron.README?

  - Michael


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