Sort behaves differently: cron vs. user shell

W. Michael Petullo mike at flyn.org
Sat Sep 2 16:49:51 UTC 2006


I recently made an entry in Bugzilla (# 204562) for the following problem:

/bin/sort uses the LC_ALL environment variable to determine how to sort.  There
seems to be a discrepancy between how this variable is set in a user shell and
cron's environment.  

The bottom line is that this causes scripts to behave differently when
run in a user shell vs. cron.

My bug was closed as "isn't definitely problem of cron."

I do think this is a bug.  A script that uses sort should execute the
same when run by a user or on behalf of a user by cron.  What component
should this be be filed under?

-- 
Mike

:wq




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