Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 11:41:22 -0600 From: Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com> To: Robin Becker <robin@reportlab.com>, FreeBSD Questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: cron mystery Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.2.20070226114021.024ce058@mail.computinginnovations.com> In-Reply-To: <45E3089F.9070000@chamonix.reportlab.co.uk> References: <45E3089F.9070000@chamonix.reportlab.co.uk>
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Environment variables are set first by the users shell which then is used
to exec cron jobs. Basically, always take nothing in the environment for
granted.
-Derek
At 10:19 AM 2/26/2007, Robin Becker wrote:
>Can anyone think of something that can stop cron working for a particular
>user?
>I just noticed on one of our 6.1 machines the crontab for a particular
>user wasn't run properly since dec 21. There were hourly and daily jobs,
>but neither seemed to be running.
>
>Looked in var/cron and see no deny or allow files. The user x had an
>proper crontab.
>
>In the end I modified the users crontab and rewrote it
>
>before
>##################
>SHELL=/bin/sh
>MAILTO=user
>
>13 3 * * * $HOME/bin/daily
>19 * * * * $HOME/bin/hourly
>
>
>after
>##################
>SHELL=/bin/sh
>MAILTO=user
>
>13 3 * * * /home/user/bin/daily
>41 * * * * /home/user/bin/hourly
>
>
>and at 41 past the hour the hourly job came back.
>
>Is it the HOME variable or the act of rewriting? User did have home
>defined in /etc/passwd.
>--
>Robin Becker
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