From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7252 invoked from network); 6 Feb 1997 13:26:07 -0000 Received: from euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (list@130.207.146.50) by coral.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 6 Feb 1997 13:26:07 -0000 Received: (from list@localhost) by euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id IAA10467; Thu, 6 Feb 1997 08:08:45 -0500 (EST) Resent-Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1997 07:50:11 -0500 (EST) From: Zefram Message-Id: <15297.199702061251@stone.dcs.warwick.ac.uk> Subject: Re: Is there any magic to use ZSH in cron scripts ? To: jarausch@igpm.rwth-aachen.de (Helmut Jarausch) Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1997 12:51:44 +0000 (GMT) Cc: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu In-Reply-To: from "Helmut Jarausch" at Feb 6, 97 11:50:53 am X-Loop: zefram@dcs.warwick.ac.uk X-Stardate: [-31]8842.67 X-US-Congress: Moronic fuckers Content-Type: text Resent-Message-ID: <"eD7ws2.0.LU2.2ET-o"@euclid> Resent-From: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/674 X-Loop: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu Helmut Jarausch wrote: >any script executed by cron is executed by the Bourne shell (on my machine, >I don't try to replace /bin/sh by zsh) > >Is there any trick to use zsh? Put your entire cron job in a script that starts "#!/usr/local/bin/zsh" (or wherever you put it), and then have the actual crontab entry just exec that script. -zefram