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Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 13:41:02 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: CRON and time
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In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20010710131544.03f40038@imap.local.mscha.com>; from cygwin@mscha.com on Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 01:19:50PM +0200

On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 01:19:50PM +0200, Michael Schaap wrote:
> 
> >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?

Our mails just crossed over :-)

No, I don't think it's worth to add that to the cron README. It's
a problem which always lurks for a chance to mess things up.

It's really a sort of a base problem. NT/W2K users (hm, no, say
"admins") are forced to keep track of the machines environment
setting, especially when using different POSIX emulations on the
same machine.

I think it could be worth a mentioning in the FAQ. I haven't yet
looked if sth. appropriate already exist in the FAQ, though.

Corinna

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