Jim Jackson: > > In all Unices I've used, cron uses sh/bash to run the jobs - not sure if > that can be changed, I haven't delved.
Actually cron set the Variable SHELL to /bin/sh. That means if you really (what for) want to change this, you can either link it to a different shell then bash or start the crontab file with SHELL=<your shell> (At least in Linux, I don't know about the other UNIX-variants) But I wouldn't do this. Normally I but all things I want to be start from cron in separate shell scripts, whith I start with #!<the shell I want> so that I know which shell I use in every case. Greetings Regine
