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

[Bill Sommerfeld]

On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 17:02 -0700, John Plocher wrote:
> If RedHat/Ubuntu does it in a particular way, we should
> consider doing it in exactly the same way.  Being different
> from Linux in these sorts of situations is a liability.

>From a few minutes of googling:

Red Hat appears to use a derivative of Paul Vixie's cron implementation.
I haven't found their source but it appears that Paul's latest release
can be found at 

	http://ftp.isc.org/isc/cron/cron_4.1.shar 

Based on reading several of the files in that distribution, it appears
that Vixie cron has supported an arbitrary-environment-variable setting
extension similar to what was originally proposed in this case since at
least 1988.

					- Bill