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	Hello,

	From "man 5 crontab":
Several environment variables are set up automatically by the cron(8) 
daemon.  SHELL is set to /bin/sh, and LOGNAME and HOME are set from
the /etc/passwd line of the crontab's owner.  HOME and SHELL may be  
overridden by settings in the crontab; LOGNAME may not. 

	Just put "SHELL=/usr/local/bin/bash" at the begining of the
crontab file. Take a look at /etc/crontab for an example.

-- Yan

On Mon, 20 Oct 1997, Jason Wells wrote:

   >I am familiar with running scripts from the command line. I assume that my
   >scripts inherit the shell that I am using. Is this correct? I have only
   >worked with bash so this is the context of this email.
   >
   >Lets say I run a script from cron. There is no shell to inherit. The script
   >would use /bin/sh. But silly me, I wrote my program to use bash.
   >
   >Is it sufficient to just enter the command /usr/local/bin/bash within the
   >script to get the script to use bash? If not, how do I set up an
   >environment for a program?
   >
   >Thanks,
   >Jason Wells
   >
   >