Don Cragun writes: > Note also that a lot of this can be done today with no changes > to cron or crontab. You can set TZ in the environment of the command > to be executed using the following form: > * 8 * * * TZ=US/Eastern date > /tmp/out8
That doesn't look too useful to me. The problem is that crond itself runs in the default time zone of the system itself, rather than in the time zone of the user. This means that the first five columns (and the second one in particular) are just plain "wrong" for remote users. > Whether you would want to use this form obviously depends on > whether you want the time at which the command will be executed and the > output of commands run to be controlled by the alternate TZ setting, or > you just want the output of the commands run to be controlled by the > alternate TZ setting. The former. The latter is just a helpful side-effect of the proposed feature. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <james.d.carlson at sun.com> Sun Microsystems / 1 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677
