how to change the shell of cron

[cantubas]

when i do "at now prog" i have the fallowing warning:
warning: commands will be executed using /usr/bin/sh


i have this warning because users have /usr/bin/ksh as default shell and it was different.

do you know how to modify the default shell of cron.

thanks

 

[kymlyons]

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 1st line in the script file cron calls

#!/usr/bin/csh

If it is just one command I want cron to do I do the following:

csh command

thus the command is executed in the csh shell.

Hope this helps.

 

[guggach]

?? how to change the shell of cron ??

no idea, this is a very misterious setting,
even if you change the root login shell (in /etc/passwd,
was current in bsd-sunos) cron tries /bin/sh, mybe this
is hardcoded.

kymlyons suggestion is correct, this way you never
get problem.
an other possibility is use env in crontab:

?? ?? ?? ?? ?? env SHELL=/bin/?sh <your-cmds> <and-args>

************** for AT only:

at -c ??????? will force a /bin/csh
at -k /bin/ksh
at -s /bin/sh


guggach

 

[guggach]

ATTENTION !!!
IF /etc/cron.d/[at|cron].allow IS PRESENT
=========================================
dont forget to include 'root' in it!!!

guggach