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From: det@hawkmoon.MN.ORG (Derek E. Terveer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: UUCP files/directories being removed under SCO UNIX
Message-ID: <1990Jun9.223218.18091@hawkmoon.MN.ORG>
Date: 9 Jun 90 22:32:18 GMT
Organization: Home System (One of the Eternal Champions)
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In article <1990Jun7.155204.27108@chinet.chi.il.us> les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) writes:
> Another annoying incompatibility is that "su -c user script" will
> execute user's .profile if user's login shell is ksh, but not with sh. 
> This can cause surprising behaviour when the command is run by cron,
> the .profile has interactive commands, and the user changes his shell.

There is a test that one can put in the front of the .profile to inhibit
reading the rest of .profile for batch environments.

derek
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Derek Terveer		det@hawkmoon.MN.ORG