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From: jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: crontab for ordinary users
Summary: Default ENV
Message-ID: <1312@tardis.Tymnet.COM>
Date: 29 Oct 90 22:26:31 GMT
References: <1990Oct15.181918.8325@cubmol.bio.columbia.edu> <1294@tardis.Tymnet.COM> <FPB.90Oct21120952@ittc.ittc.wec.com> <1990Oct23.024811.15550@mlb.semi.harris.com>
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In article <1990Oct23.024811.15550@mlb.semi.harris.com> del@thrush.mlb.semi.harris.com (Don Lewis) writes:
>How does PATH get set for cron jobs and commands executed by /usr/ucb/rsh?

I tried both crontab and /usr/ucb/rsh under SunOS-4.1 and got the following:
The environment was set to:
	HOME=/home/techserv/jms
	SHELL=/bin/csh
	PATH=:/usr/ucb:/bin:/usr/bin
	USER=jms
	PWD=/home/tardis/techserv/jms

The C-shell's local variables were:
	argv	(depends on the command)
	cwd	/home/tardis/techserv/jms
	home	/home/techserv/jms
	path	(. /usr/ucb /bin /usr/bin)
	shell	/bin/csh
	status	0
	user	jms

They appear to be hardwired into in.rshd, in.rlogind, login, and cron.
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