crontab vs. links in /etc/cron.hourly (etc.)

Jerry Feldman gaf at blu.org
Wed Jun 5 10:06:14 EDT 2002


I would change this to:
CVSROOT=:pserver:qalab at bathtub:/var/cvsroot_generic
CVSREAD=y
STEST='stest-dontuse-test.tar'
export CVSROOT
export CVSREAD
export STEST

While /bin/sh is linked to bash and should be POSIX, not all systems have 
/bin/sh that is fully POSIX.  


On 5 Jun 2002 at 9:42, Scott Prive wrote:

> export CVSROOT=:pserver:qalab at bathtub:/var/cvsroot_generic
> export CVSREAD=y
> # temporarily rename tarball so we don't stomp on good version
> export STEST='stest-dontuse-test.tar'


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