Re: glimpse_partitions not found

[Christian Vogler <cvogler@gradient.cis.upenn.edu>]

On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 10:27:28AM -0400, Charles Hall wrote:
> I have been having consistent troubles running 'wgreindex' in my
> nightly cron job on Linux. Then I realized that it AWLAYS worked
> when I ran it by hand the next day, and it ALWAYS failed via the
> cron job. After several experiments I found that changing the shell
> in my cron job to 'bash' made it work!

> I can only imagine that one of the Glimpse programs makes use of a
> shell command that the default Bourne shell ('sh') doesn't
> support. Or that this computer's Bourne shell set-up is just goofy.

This is really odd. On a Linux system the Bourne shell and the bash
ARE identical (/bin/sh is just a symlink to /bin/bash), unless you use
some kind of goofy distribution. ;-)

Thanks for the report. There may be something else going on that needs
to be investigated.

- Christian