ksh and sh

Leslie Mikesell les at chinet.chi.il.us
Wed Jul 12 13:18:24 AEST 1989


In article <372 at trevan.UUCP> trevor at trevan.UUCP (trevor) writes:

>	Is there anything wrong in changing the name of ksh to sh or
>is there any incompatability.

Among other possible problems you will find that if you have any
rc or cron commands of the form:
    su user -c command
ksh will execute the .profile of the user before executing the command.
This can cause trouble if there are interactive prompts.

Les Mikesell



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