[comp.unix.wizards] /etc/cron problem

lindsay@cheviot.UUCP (02/25/87)

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