Patch to gcc_release
Alexandre Oliva
aoliva@redhat.com
Wed Nov 14 14:01:00 GMT 2001
On Nov 12, 2001, "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> Why does cron run things with such a restrictive environment (only /bin
> and /usr/bin in the PATH, no USER, ...)?
Probably just because the shell started by cron isn't a login shell,
so it doesn't load the user's profile.
> - PATH=~:$PATH;;
> + PATH=~:/usr/local/bin:$PATH;;
I strongly suggest changing `~' to `$HOME'. Bourne shell knows
nothing about `~', even though bash expands it to $HOME.
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