from man cron and man 5 crontab it seems that only SHELL, LOGNAME and HOME 
are set, since the script itself can specify a shell? i assume there is some 
additional environment variable that is set in a console that affects the 
running of urpmi, thanks for the pointer

bascule

On Thursday 15 Nov 2001 1:27 am, you wrote:
> You can use the dash with kdesu as well I think.  Also, do some reading
> "man cron" and I think you will find that cron actually uses a
> particular restricted environment, hence your errors.  I have got around
> this in the past by putting the job in a script file that sets the
> environment and which is called by cron.
>
> B

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