[X-Unix] setting up aliases in bash / Tiger

Stewart C. Russell scruss at scruss.com
Wed Sep 27 17:29:53 PDT 2006


Doug McNutt wrote:
> 
> ... You won't even get your specified login shell. That's
> even true for some aspects of cron jobs. Your $PATH variable may not
> be what you want.

It never is with cron, on any OS I've worked with. Convention has it 
that cron jobs run with a very limited environment.

  Stewart


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