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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!in2.uu.net!vixie!nnrp.vix.com!vixie From: vixie@vix.com (Paul A Vixie) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: cron/stdout pipe question Date: 09 Sep 1995 06:35:57 GMT Organization: Vixie Enterprises Lines: 11 Message-ID: <VIXIE.95Sep8233557@wisdom.vix.com> References: <42nkri$nb3@galaxy.ucr.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: wisdom.home.vix.com In-reply-to: artchan@cs.ucr.edu's message of 7 Sep 1995 20:31:46 GMT >I figure it may have something to do with the cron process not being >attached to a tty of some sort. (please let me know if I'm thinking in >the right direction). I've heard that cron's file descriptor setup is not friendly to the csh. If your SHELL is /bin/sh then perhaps you should try GNU bash. -- Paul Vixie La Honda, CA "Illegitimi non carborundum." <paul@vix.com> pacbell!vixie!paul (dont let the bastards grind you down)