Date: Mon, 14 Aug 1995 19:25:51 +0200 From: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> Cc: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>, FreeBSD-bugs@freebsd.org Subject: bin/683: cron(8) Message-ID: <199508141725.TAA18350@caramba.cs.tu-berlin.de> In-Reply-To: <9508141644.AA11411@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> References: <199508131617.SAA13412@localhost> <9508141442.AA11143@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> <199508141459.QAA11761@caramba.cs.tu-berlin.de> <9508141532.AA11236@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> <199508141557.RAA14439@caramba.cs.tu-berlin.de> <9508141644.AA11411@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
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Garrett Wollman writes:
><<On Mon, 14 Aug 1995 17:57:01 +0200, Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de> said:
>
>>> You missed the point. It is none of cron's business to be parsing
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>> shell command lines, period.
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>You are still missing the point.
You too. Cron(8) is for execute *commands*, not execute your favourite
*shell command* lines.
Starting a shell is a feature. It is your own risk if
SHELL=/usr/bin/perl not work (perl -c is for syntax checking).
$ egrep -i shell cron.8 |wc -l
0
Wolfram
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