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Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 12:43:07 -0400
From: "Pierre A. Humblet" <pierre DOT humblet AT ieee DOT org>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Crontab on Win9X works
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On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 09:44:13AM -0700, David Byron wrote:
> 
> I ran into this same thing under XP when I start cron from my user context.
> One of my environment variables has a carriage return in it so that
> everything before it goes properly into the header, and everything after it
> goes into the body of the message.  I'm not sure what the right solution is.

You could try a variation on the theme 
env -i IMPORTANT_VAR=xxx /usr/sbin/cron

Pierre


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