Probably working too hard for this cron question

[Warren Block]

On Mon, 13 Jun 2011, Kurt Buff wrote:

> Per the handbook, I added
>
>     SHELL=/bin/sh
>
> to crontab, and I also added
>
>     #!/bin/sh
>
> as the first line in the script

Should not need both.  The first changes a default, which is bad when 
you switch to another system where that hasn't been changed.  The 
second, putting #!/bin/sh in the script, should be enough.