* Steve Greenland said: > On 23-Aug-99, 14:30 (CDT), Justin Wells <jread@semiotek.com> wrote: > > > > Steve, it's remarkably difficult to construct a shell script that depends > > on root's declared shell in /etc/passwd. I don't believe any exist. > > Fine. That's not what was said. > > > Cron never uses it, the system startup utilities never use it, and I've > > never encountered anything else that ever used it either. [snip] > You're correct: it's not Linux. My point is that *you don't know* about > how a given system might be used or misused. Many of us have learned to > be cautious about screwing with root's shell. If you want to experiment > on your systems, fine. Just don't insist on experimenting on mine. Steve, we are talking about a STANDARD Debian system, not a MODIFIED one. We would install the statics package with a STANDARD set of utilities that come with Debian - cron and anacron are the two async schedulers that come with Debian and they work the way we expect them to. And I'm still yet to see what is the relevance between the root's shell and the crontab scripts or whatever scripts for that matter. marek
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