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Subject: RE: 1.5.19: Problem with cron and microsoft devenv
Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 18:12:53 -0400
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> 
> Another question I have is about cron and environment variables.  When
> I run a shell, even cmd /c, under cron the environment variable
> APPDATA doesn't get set.  This seems odd to me.  I believe APPDATA
> gets set from shell32 which should be loaded when cron runs 'cmd /c
> somescript.bat'.
> 

The simple crontab below will show you what environment variables cron
knows about.

* * * * * /usr/bin/env

Also, 'man 5 crontab' describes cron's handling of environment
variables.

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