From owner-freebsd-bugs Mon Aug 14 10:47:05 1995 Return-Path: bugs-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id KAA05798 for bugs-outgoing; Mon, 14 Aug 1995 10:47:05 -0700 Received: from mail.cs.tu-berlin.de (mail.cs.tu-berlin.de [130.149.17.13]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id KAA05772 for ; Mon, 14 Aug 1995 10:46:43 -0700 Received: from caramba.cs.tu-berlin.de (wosch@caramba.cs.tu-berlin.de [130.149.144.4]) by mail.cs.tu-berlin.de (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id TAA02759; Mon, 14 Aug 1995 19:25:58 +0200 From: Wolfram Schneider Received: (wosch@localhost) by caramba.cs.tu-berlin.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id TAA18350; Mon, 14 Aug 1995 19:25:51 +0200 Date: Mon, 14 Aug 1995 19:25:51 +0200 Message-Id: <199508141725.TAA18350@caramba.cs.tu-berlin.de> To: Garrett Wollman Cc: Wolfram Schneider , FreeBSD-bugs@freebsd.org Subject: bin/683: cron(8) 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> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: bugs-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Garrett Wollman writes: >< 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