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From: joey@finlandia.Infodrom.North.DE (Martin Schulze)
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Package: cron
Version: 3.0pl1-49
Severity: wishlist

I would be nice if cron would expand $HOME properly in a PATH=
statement within a crontab.

This crontab:

        PATH=$HOME/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin

        * * * * *       echo $PATH

results in this mail:

$HOME/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin

However I would have expected

        /home/admin/ftpadmin/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin

Regards,

	Joey

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