crontab entry environment variables [PSARC/2007/503 FastTrack timeo

[Bill Sommerfeld]

On Mon, 2007-09-10 at 17:55 -0700, Don Cragun wrote:
>  1.  There is nothing in cron.1m nor in crontab.1 warning users that
>      they should not use the HOME, SHELL, or TZ variables in crontab
>      files that contain entries installed by more than one user or
>      application.

I don't believe it's appropriate to have warnings against perfectly
reasonable usage of the feature.  

What we need is a clear warning that the variable settings affect all
successive entries and that administrators need to be on the lookout
for unexpected side-effects.

						- Bill