Re: itp: static bins / resolving static debian issues
On Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 10:06:31AM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote:
> e.g. someone who's been running debian for years and has various
> bashisms and posixisms in /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root - root's shell
> has always been bash on debian so that is a fairly common situation.
> changing root's shell to sash will immediately break those cron jobs.
Obviously it would not be a good idea to automatically
change root's shell. However, if the admin wants to do it there
should be no harm; I have root's shell set to tcsh [*] on one machine.
hamish
[*] Flames and other commentary on tcsh to /dev/null.
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