3003 Cron features

[Robin]

In article <884 at bcstec.boeing.com> ced at bcstec.uucp (Charles Derykus) writes:
> 
> Has anyone encountered some strange "cron" effects on the RS6000, version
> 3003?
> 
> A cron job owner's .profile is run with each invocation of the cron job but 
> apparently chokes on things requiring an interactive shell, i.,e.
> 
> an "open ksh" within a .profile  generates the following error:
> 
> 
>     Message  1:
>     >From root Tue May 28 15:50:02 1991
>     Date: Tue, 28 May 91 15:50:01 -0700
>     From: daemon
>     To: root
> 
>     open: 0380-191 This workstation, , is not the console.
>         Run this command only from the console, /dev/hft/0, or an hft
>         workstation.
> 
> 
>     *****************************************************************
>     cron: The previous message is the standard output
>     and standard error of one of the cron commands.
> 
> An interactive shell test around the "open ksh" fixes the problem but
> has anyone complained to IBM?

What would you complain about?  This is the way it is supposed to work.   
(Unless you are refering to the "bug" that runs the ".profile" in the first  
place.  This bug should be fixed in 3005, or 2006.)

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