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how to change the shell of cron
I was having a simular problem with crons default being sh and wanting to be in csh. I found some where that you should be able to put a line such as SHELL = in your cron tab file but on my system, Solaris 9, this was not allowed. So the best I have found to do is to have the following as the...- kymlyons
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- Forum: UNIX Scripting
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trouble with ssh command not ending from cron
Hi, I'm looking for help with a script I wrote that is being executed from a cron job. I use the ssh command to do a directory on a remote host and write it to a file on the host the script is running on. The command I use is: ssh usename@remotehost "ls /dirname/*"...- kymlyons
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- Forum: UNIX Scripting
