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From: edgar@news.zeitgeist.net (Edgar Nielsen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: bsdi2.1 and cron problem
Date: 12 Feb 1996 17:53:28 -0800
Organization: TLGnet Inc., (formerly The Little Garden)
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Hi,
	I'm running a new bsdi2.1 system and have run into one problem:
cron seems to ignore PATH settings in a user's crontab file.

The interesting thing is that mail from cron shows that it knows that
the PATH has been changed, (X-Cron-Env: output)
along with other environment settings that work; but scripts being
run are getting a default path of /usr/bin:/bin!

I could just edit all my scripts, but that is a maintenance headache.

Does anyone have any clues? This is the same crontab that was running
successfully on a 2.0.1 machine. No errors are being logged by cron either.

Thanks for any info,
edgar nielsen