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From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.bugs.sys5,comp.unix.microport
Subject: Re: ksh and sh
Summary: su user -c "command" executes .profile
Message-ID: <8929@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 12 Jul 89 03:18:24 GMT
References: <372@trevan.UUCP>
Reply-To: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
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In article <372@trevan.UUCP> trevor@trevan.UUCP (trevor) writes:

>	Is there anything wrong in changing the name of ksh to sh or
>is there any incompatability.

Among other possible problems you will find that if you have any
rc or cron commands of the form:
    su user -c command
ksh will execute the .profile of the user before executing the command.
This can cause trouble if there are interactive prompts.

Les Mikesell