From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] crontab not executing
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 12:30:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110620123052.0a868f4b@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTi=J6xpQ9_xg3rGFBwtgTzMRX5FbWQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, 20 Jun 2011 20:39:00 +1000, Adam Carter wrote:
> >> /bin/sh is a symlink to bash.
> >
> > Which runs as sh when run from the symlink.
>
> I dont understand. "runs as" usually means "runs under the user
That's one possible use of the term, but English rarely has one meaning
per phrase.
> context" to me - are you saying bash has an sh compatibility mode?
Yes.
"If bash is invoked with the name sh, it tries to mimic the startup
behavior of historical versions of sh as closely as possible, while
conforming to the POSIX standard as well."
--
Neil Bothwick
If a turtle doesn't have a shell, is he homeless or naked?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-20 12:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-19 22:37 [gentoo-user] crontab not executing Grant
2011-06-19 23:45 ` David W Noon
2011-06-20 5:18 ` Florian Philipp
2011-06-20 6:30 ` Adam Carter
2011-06-20 8:21 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-06-20 9:07 ` Florian Philipp
2011-06-20 10:39 ` Adam Carter
2011-06-20 11:22 ` Albert Hopkins
2011-06-20 11:30 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2011-06-20 11:53 ` Florian Philipp
2011-06-20 13:52 ` Willie Wong
2011-06-20 12:52 ` Todd Goodman
[not found] ` <1426203.rtguKxDEjI@nazgul>
2011-06-20 14:47 ` Grant
2011-06-20 14:57 ` Peter Humphrey
2011-06-22 14:40 ` Grant
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