Changes to cron in update 7 2006-03-21 - By Tim Evans
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On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 16:03:56 +0100, Anders Nielsen wrote
> I have updated today and this has broken some of my cron jobs. If
>
> If I put this in in my crontab for the user anielsen
>
> USER="HELLO WORLD"
> * * * * * echo "$USER"
>
> I now get "anielsen". Before I got "HELLO WORLD".
$USER is the standard OS variable for the userid; if you type your command at
the shell prompt, this is what you'll get. Since you are redefining this
variable, you probably need to export it in your script. That is:
USER="HELLO WORLD"; export USER
echo $USER
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