[BUGS] Cron job breakage in 6.3.1

[Jerahmy Pocott]

On 07/04/2008, at 8:01 AM, Callum Gibson wrote:

> On 07Apr08 07:42, Jerahmy Pocott wrote:
> }Has something changed in relation to cron or smbfs mounting? There  
> was
> }nothing about it in UPDATING.. I'm thinking it might be some security
> }feature, but I don't see where anything has changed in this regard
> }from 6.2 to 6.3?
>
> There was a change not so long back which affected the  
> interpretation of
> $HOME in /etc/crontab. If that's what you're using, you'll note  
> there is
> a HOME=/var/log in the top, but apparently this was broken until a  
> year
> ago (ie. between 6.2 and 6.3 releases were cut). Could that be your  
> problem?

Yes I had noticed that, but the HOME=/var/log line had been in crontab  
for a while, but if this was previously not working and was fixed in  
6.3 then I would say that's almost certainly what's going wrong!

Thanks!