* Hamish Moffatt said: > 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. And if there are problems, and they are with Debian-provided scripts, then a bug should be filed. marek
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