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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Continued Crontab Problem on 2.0.5
Date: 12 Jan 1996 22:00:33 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch)
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dhawk@netcom.com (David H) writes:
> To restate the problem: the 'stats' crontab runs a compiled binary
> that does a system call to determine its home directory. It gets
> an answer of '/root' instead of the actual 'stats' home directory.
You mean: to determine its _current_ directory, right?
Determining the home directory would be done with getenv("HOME").
> Shouldn't a program run by the user 'stats' be able to find the
> home directory for stats?
Yup, with getenv().
It might be a bug or misfeature of cron to not chdir() to ${HOME}
before, but neither is documented, so you can't rely on it anyway. I
would suggest you talking to Paul Vixie, the author of the BSD cron.
--
cheers, J"org
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