* Justin Wells 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. Correct again :))). Acknowledged that in other mail ;))) > > 1. modify cron to stick to /bin/sh (not good) > > No need, it already does. Definitely so :) marek
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