[comp.unix.questions] cron and mail

leo@ehviea.ine.philips.nl (Leo de Wit) (04/10/90)

In article <2616F01C.3192@orion.oac.uci.edu> meggers@mothra.nts.uci.edu (Mark Eggers) writes:
|Thank you everyone for the information.  The problem turns out to
|be with `echo $USER`.  It appears that $USER is not set, although
|the man page claims that it is.  `echo $LOGNAME` works properly.
|
|thanks again - /mde/

$LOGNAME works properly too...

   Leo.