* Justin Wells said: > > Hamish, don't worry about it. Craig is being paranoid, which is usually > a very good attitude for a Unix admin, but in this case it's not > necessary paranoia. Cron ignores the shell you declare in /etc/passwd > and always uses /bin/sh, unless you tell it to use something else. > > Very, very little depends on roots shell. But Craig is right about the crontabs, we missed that one. > If /bin/sh were switched to something other than bash, then bash-isms > need to be eliminated from all /bin/sh scripts. This will take a long Well, that's been dealt with elsewhere :)) > while to happen, since the problem is pervasive. Probably Debian should > "deprecate" the use of bash-isms for /bin/sh, but take several years > to get around to making the switch. All the scripts should use POSIX syntax only. marek
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