[BUGS] Cron job breakage in 6.3.1

[Callum Gibson]

On 07Apr08 21:41, Jerahmy Pocott wrote:
}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!

You're not the first to be bitten by it.
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2008-February/040842.html

See the cvs log for the change:

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/usr.sbin/cron/lib/entry.c

and scroll down to Revision 1.16.2.1. See 1.18 for further info.

    C

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