3003 Cron features

[Charles Derykus]

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?



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