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From: leo@ehviea.ine.philips.nl (Leo de Wit)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: cron and mail
Keywords: solved
Message-ID: <533@ehviea.ine.philips.nl>
Date: 10 Apr 90 10:26:59 GMT
References: <2616F01C.3192@orion.oac.uci.edu>
Reply-To: leo@ehviea.UUCP (Leo de Wit)
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In article <2616F01C.3192@orion.oac.uci.edu> meggers@mothra.nts.uci.edu (Mark Eggers) writes:
|Thank you everyone for the information.  The problem turns out to
|be with `echo $USER`.  It appears that $USER is not set, although
|the man page claims that it is.  `echo $LOGNAME` works properly.
|
|thanks again - /mde/

$LOGNAME works properly too...

   Leo.