Good point. I thought about that later. For cases like cron jobs, there's no real shell context, so it's got to be the kernel.
-Charles At 2:54 PM -0800 1/10/2002, Wilfredo Sánchez wrote: > The kernel does #! processing, not the shell. > > -Fred > >On Thursday, January 10, 2002, at 07:49 AM, Charles Albrecht wrote: > >> But in this case, the problem wasn't with Perl. It was tcsh (most >> likely) >> on the BSD side of things that couldn't figure out what executable to >> run >> the shell script with. It couldn't figure out a path to something >> called: >> >> /usr/bin/perl^Mprint "Perl on Mac OS X\n";