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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