george@CIS.OHIO-STATE.EDU (George M. Jones) (06/10/90)
Under Umax 4.4 R4.0 I create the following innocuous little script called /etc/foo #! /bin/csh /bin/echo foo > /tmp/foo.out Then I put an entry in crontab to run the script. After the script runs, lo, and behold the file /tmp/foo.out is create...but it is zero length...stranger still simply changing the shell to /bin/sh yeilds the expected behavior (creating a file with the word "foo" in it. For an external reference I did the same thing on a SunOS 3.5 system & got the expected behavior (non-zero length files) with both csh and sh. I also compiled the straight bsd 4.3 (pre-tahoe) cron on the multimax and tried that but that seemed to have no effect. Curious and a little confused, ---George OSU Computer & Inf. Science 2036 Neil Ave.,Columbus,Ohio 43210. 614-292-7325 george@cis.ohio-state.edu or ...!osu-cis!george Remember kids, if some weirdo in a blue suit offers you some DOS, just say no !