Does the "at" scheduler use bash or dash? I have a shell script that runs just fine via cron or command line It generates errors if run via "at" and does not complete The errors seem to be related to the use of the "let" statement My test script fails the same way from command line if I include #!/bin/dash Runs fine with #!/bin/bash This leads me to believe that the at scheduler uses dash no matter what is in the script file. Of course trying to google for anything with "at" in the search string returns a zillion hits none of which are relevant.
I am running Ubuntu 10.10 Here's the test script it generates a random number of hours between 24 and 36 which is used in the real script at the offset to schedule itself again via "at": #!/bin/bash MAX=36 MIN=24 number_hours=0 while [ "$number_hours" -le $MIN ] do number_hours=$RANDOM let "number_hours %= $MAX" done echo "number_hours=" $number_hours Ideas?? -- frank hunt (L0F) R0B-ZAR1 befuddled linux admin erstwhile photographer hillsboro oregon _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
