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From: davidsen@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Non-standard shell and su.
Message-ID: <8376@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP>
Date: 6 Jan 88 13:17:17 GMT
References: <200@icus.UUCP> <264@ho7cad.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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In article <264@ho7cad.ATT.COM> wjc@ho5cad.ATT.COM writes:
| In article <200@icus.UUCP> lenny@icus.UUCP (Lenny Tropiano) writes:
| >  [su with "-c" problem described]

| Another ploy for getting  ksh for root  is to simply  link /bin/ksh on
| top of /bin/sh.  I've been running this way for quite a while  with no
| problems (3.5).  I  do recall  some ancient problems with cron scripts
| breaking and  log  files  growing forever  in the   2.5/3.0 days,  but
| something fixed that.

Any script which uses the caret (^) for pipes will break. I just posted
a note in another group about this, maybe I should put it on the bugs
group as well.

A good example of this is "style" and "diction" from WWB. I use these a
lot, so I found the problem very early on.
-- 
	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me