Re: itp: static bins / resolving static debian issues
Well cron is not the problem, and neither are the scripts in /etc/rc.d
(or equivalent on tother systems). The solaris manpage for crontab(5)
also states:
cron supplies a default environment for every shell, defining
HOME, LOGNAME, SHELL(=/bin/sh), TZ, and PATH. The default
PATH for user cron jobs is /usr/bin; while root cron
jobs default to /usr/sbin:/usr/bin. The default PATH can
be set in /etc/default/cron; see cron(1M).
And I've alreqdy quoted the manpage for Paul Vixie's cron, which is
the one used by free OS's.
What's dangerous about it?
Justin
On Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 05:18:19PM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 19, 1999 at 10:00:27PM -0400, Justin Wells wrote:
>
> > You can safely set roots shell to anything you like, without fear of
> > having any impact whatsoever on scripts running on your system.
>
> this is not my experience with other unix operating systems such as sco
> or solaris. i learnt the hard way many years ago that changing root's
> shell is a dangerous thing to do.
>
> craig
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