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Subject: Re: [9fans] cron and lib/profile
From: Heiko Dudzus <heiko.dudzus@gmx.de>
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 19:21:30 +0200
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smurfasmurf wrote:
> Cron (w. host=local) does not seem to read $home/lib/profile, so all
> the binds there are missing. Should it not behave as if the user logged
> in and typed the command manually?

With host=local, the command runs in a namespace as in /lib/namespace.
If you need the bindings made in your lib/profile you can use the
explicit name of the CPU server as hostname.

In the latter case, rx(1) and rexexec(8) are used. Rexexec does:
execl("/bin/rc", "rc", "-lc", buf, nil);
to run the commands in it. (The -l flag causes rc to read lib/profile.)

whereas, if host is 'local', cron does:
execl("/bin/rc", "rc", "-c", buf, nil);

The I can't tell if the difference in behaviour is intended.  But you
can work around it that way.

Heiko