[fetchmail]Fetchmail + crontab trouble

[Christoph Pilka]

I=B4m running a Gentoo box (2004.2) as mailserver fetching mails from sev=
eral external accounts. As Gentoo user you have the choice between 4 cron=
job daemons. This box runs vixie-cron. I don=B4t know why HOME is not set=
 properly, but it is. A simple
*/1 *   * * *   ctp   echo $HOME >> /tmp/home.tmp
shows me, cronjob doesn=B4t use HOME=3D/home/ctp but HOME=3D/.

Chris

> What system did this happen on, can you see the cause of the error, how
> did you fix it? POSIX-compliant cron(tab) is supposed to set HOME,
> LOGNAME, PATH and SHELL properly.

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