bsh -o from the cron, but from where?

[Robin D. Wilson]

In article <1991Feb3.155320.14616 at odi.com> benson at odi.com (Benson I. Margulies) writes:
>The root on my 3002 system gets periodic mail from cron
>saying that some job got an error by invoking bsh with the
>-o argument. But no crontabs contain the string "bsh -o",
>and I can't find anything else  that does, either.
>
>Has anyone else sorted this out?

Does your "/.profile" have "set -o vi" in it?  If it does, this should be 
removed to a /.kshrc (or some other file), and your .profile should be set
up with the following entries:

ENV=/.kshrc  # Or whatever filename you decided on
export ENV

This entry will do nothing (nothing useful that is) when bourne shell is 
started by cron (/bin/bsh), but when you start a ksh process it will know to
use the "ENV" variable to find the korn shell startup file (/.kshrc).  Since
bourne shell doesn't use "set -o vi" (or and of the "set -o" stuff used by
ksh) it will always return an error when running a profile that has this in
it.  You should note, that /bin/bsh is the shell of choice for cron, and it
will use the bourne shell, so if your environment files contain things that 
bourne shell doesn't do, they will fail.


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