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RE: 1.5.19: Problem with cron and microsoft devenv
- From: "Harig, Mark" <maharig at idirect dot net>
- To: "Nick Forte" <rforte at gmail dot com>, <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 18:12:53 -0400
- Subject: RE: 1.5.19: Problem with cron and microsoft devenv
>
> 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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