Interesting ... turns out 'USER' ISN'T there, but LOGNAME is.
BTW, ref to bin user is just an example quoted from man page.
I'm having to run this as the root user.
I need to be able to do this from cron eventually ie root or system crontab.
I'll try that now.
BTW, what is the diff between USER and LOGNAME and are there any other values I can check for in case they aren't there.
Basically, the real prog will be run on various systems under different users and I need to know which user when it runs, as certain users aren't allowed to call my program... it's part of a system monitor suite.

Cheers
Chris

In reply to Re^2: Obtaining %ENV values via su cmd by chrism01
in thread Obtaining %ENV values via su cmd by chrism01

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