Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!mtimm
From: mtimm@watserv1.waterloo.edu (Martin Timmerman)
Subject: Re: bsh -o from the cron, but from where?
Message-ID: <1991Feb3.205208.27299@watserv1.waterloo.edu>
Organization: University of Waterloo
References: <1991Feb3.155320.14616@odi.com>
Date: Sun, 3 Feb 91 20:52:08 GMT
Lines: 13

In article <1991Feb3.155320.14616@odi.com> benson@odi.com (Benson I. Margulies) writes:
>The root on my 3002 system gets periodic mail from cron
>saying that some job got an error by invoking bsh with the
>-o argument. But no crontabs contain the string "bsh -o",
>and I can't find anything else  that does, either.
>
>Has anyone else sorted this out?
>
I had this problem also.  root starts up with the ksh and the .profile
file likely has a set -o vi or set -o emacs command in it.
I changed the .profile to do the set -o vi only if the shell was interactive.

Martin Timmerman, University of Waterloo