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When asked his whereabouts on Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 02:23:24PM -0500,
Bruce Easton took the fifth, drank it, and then slurred:
> 
> Not sure what the difference is or if there should be a difference, but when
> I am logged in as a non-root user our SCO (?5.5) box here, $USER has no
> value, but $LOGNAME has the login name.  But then on a Fedora box $USER and
> $LOGNAME are showing the same value.  ???

Bah.  My mistake.  $USER is more or less a [t]csh-ism.  $LOGNAME is the
portable one (which is -also- present in [t]csh).  Been using *nix since
'89 and I -still- confuse the two variables' portability at times.  Not
always, just when I really need to be clear. :)

Sorry about that, and thanks for the good catch, Bruce!

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