su on 10.2: TERM: Undefined variable

[Michael B. Eichorn]

On Sun, 2015-11-22 at 19:43 -0500, Brandon Allbery wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 6:31 PM, Erich Dollansky <
> erichsfreebsdlist at alogt.com> wrote:
> 
> > this is a bit strange. TERM should be always define to tell the
> > applications the capabilities of your terminal.
> > 
> 
> Things run from crontab don't have a terminal.

Indeed cron only sets SHELL HOME PATH and USER

> 
> I note the error message looks like csh; check the target user's
> .cshrc.
> 

but we are running from cron which defaults to sh inside a script with
a #!/bin/sh and the call is su -m which should leave the environment
unmodified and use the current shell (presumably still sh) as the login
shell.

Also www has a home of /nonexistant, no .cshrc file to be had.


Maybe freebsd-update IDS is in order?
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