From: Florian Philipp <lists@binarywings.net>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] crontab not executing
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 11:07:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DFF0DC8.8020504@binarywings.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110620092140.4f907a6c@zaphod.digimed.co.uk>
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Am 20.06.2011 10:21, schrieb Neil Bothwick:
> On Mon, 20 Jun 2011 16:30:12 +1000, Adam Carter wrote:
>
>>> I might be wrong but as I understand it, cron executes your commands
>>> in /bin/sh, not /bin/bash.
>>
>> /bin/sh is a symlink to bash.
>
> Which runs as sh when run from the symlink.
>
>
Interestingly, the new style of command substitution has been added to
the POSIX standard.
http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/
I always thought bash was just lazy when it accepted that syntax in sh
mode and therefore could fail if you use dash as a sh replacement or
something alike. Well, lifelong learning ...
Regards,
Florian Philipp
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-20 9:13 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 [this message]
2011-06-20 10:39 ` Adam Carter
2011-06-20 11:22 ` Albert Hopkins
2011-06-20 11:30 ` Neil Bothwick
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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