Date: Mon, 14 Aug 1995 12:44:26 -0400 From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de> Cc: FreeBSD-bugs@freebsd.org Subject: bin/683: cron(8) Message-ID: <9508141644.AA11411@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <199508141557.RAA14439@caramba.cs.tu-berlin.de> 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>
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<<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 putting knowledge into utility programs which have no business
>> applying them; this is simply the Wrong Thing.
> Ok, ok. Add a check for $SHELL (/bin/sh or /bin/csh).
You are still missing the point.
-GAWollman
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