On Tue, 07 Oct 2003 12:40, Wayne Rooney wrote: > Now if ~ means the home directory of the current user, and cron runs as > root, isn't ~ame/rootwashere going to expand to /rootame/rootwashere?
Ahh... almost ~/ will get expanded to the current users' home directory, but ~username/ will get expanded to the user "username" 's home directory. Note that this is all done by the *shell*, most programs don't know about it (and don't see it). > Wayne Later Lee
