Re: itp: static bins / resolving static debian issues
On Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 11:25:54AM +0200, Marek Habersack wrote:
> * Craig Sanders said:
> >
> > 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.
> I missed that point. You're right - it is a problem.
No problem. cron guarnatees that SHELL defaults to /bin/sh, and never
uses your /etc/passwd declared shell.
> 1. modify cron to stick to /bin/sh (not good)
No need, it already does.
Justin
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