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From: stefan@wheaton.UUCP (Stefan Brandle )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Shell (csh) Programming problem
Message-ID: <2070@wheaton.UUCP>
Date: 30 May 90 14:22:00 GMT
References: <1990May29.132532.15379@isavax.isa.com>
Reply-To: stefan@wheaton.UUCP (Stefan Brandle )
Organization: Wheaton College, IL
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In article <1990May29.132532.15379@isavax.isa.com> cliffb@isavax.isa.com (cliff bedore*) writes:
>I'm having a problem with a csh program that I wrote to log out idle users.
>... All of these problems show up when
>run from cron.  When run as root (or su) it runs fine.  When I kill cron and
>invoke cron as root, it works fine but when it is invoked from cron that

How do you call it from cron?  I have this idea that cron runs `sh' by default,
so you might need to do something like 

10 * * * * /bin/csh your_program

Otherwise cron might be trying to run it from the Bourne shell.  (Since the
Bourne shell doesn't look at the `#!/bin/csh', that doesn't help you).

So maybe you are running it differently from cron on the two different machines?
Hope this helps...

-Stefan
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