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Subject: Missleading comment in example in crontab(5) 
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>Number:         12520
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       Missleading comment in example in crontab(5)
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Jul  5 07:40:01 PDT 1999
>Closed-Date:    Tue Jul 27 09:39:11 PDT 1999
>Last-Modified:  Tue Jul 27 09:39:48 PDT 1999
>Originator:     
>Release:        
>Organization:
>Environment:
>Description:
 Quoted from DESCRIPTION in crontab(5), forth paragraph: 
  
   Several environment variables are set up automatically by the cron(8) 
   daemon.  SHELL is set to /bin/sh, and LOGNAME and HOME are set from 
   the /etc/passwd line of the crontab's owner.  HOME and SHELL may be 
   overridden by settings in the crontab; LOGNAME may not. 
  
 And then from EXAMPLE CRON FILE in the same manpage, first lines: 
  
   # use /bin/sh to run commands, no matter what /etc/passwd says 
   SHELL=/bin/sh 
  
>How-To-Repeat:
 
  man 5 crontab 
 
>Fix:
         
  Either remove the first two lines of the example, or change the 
  comment to something like 'be explicit, even though /bin/sh is the  
  default'. 

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
Responsible-Changed-From-To: gnats-admin->freebsd-bugs 
Responsible-Changed-By: steve 
Responsible-Changed-When: Tue Jul 27 07:35:33 PDT 1999 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
Misfiled PR. 
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: n_hibma 
State-Changed-When: Tue Jul 27 09:39:11 PDT 1999 
State-Changed-Why:  
Committed. Thanks! 
>Unformatted:
