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From: lindsay@cheviot.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: /etc/cron problem
Message-ID: <1926@cheviot.newcastle.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 25-Feb-87 04:43:41 EST
Article-I.D.: cheviot.1926
Posted: Wed Feb 25 04:43:41 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 28-Feb-87 06:11:38 EST
Reply-To: lindsay@cheviot.newcastle.ac.uk (Lindsay F. Marshall)
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Organization: U. of Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K.
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The problem we were having was caused by the presence of #! lines at the
start of shell scripts. cron does a "sh -c" of the command line in
crontab and the version of the shell used does not recognise # as a comment
line so bombs out on any shellscript in the file that starts with #!.....

Thanks to Nigel Horne (njh@root44.uucp for putting me on the track of that
one.

Lindsay