Your message dated Tue, 11 Jul 2017 17:54:23 -0700 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line Re: Bug#868093: bugs.debian.org: in squeeze /etc/rc.local doesn't work with !#/bin/sh -e has caused the Debian Bug report #868093, regarding bugs.debian.org: in squeeze /etc/rc.local doesn't work with !#/bin/sh -e to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: bugs.debian.org Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, I had to change the first line of /etc/rc.local from #!/bin/sh -e to #!/bin/bash to make it work. Don't know why - I tried several things and this was another random shot at trying to make it work. *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? * What was the outcome of this action? * What outcome did you expect instead? *** End of the template - remove these template lines *** -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
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--- Begin Message ---On Wed, 12 Jul 2017, Łukasz Grabowski wrote: > I had to change the first line of /etc/rc.local from > #!/bin/sh -e > to > #!/bin/bash > to make it work. Don't know why - I tried several things and this was another > random > shot at trying to make it work. This is almost certainly because your rc.local script contains bash-specific syntax which does not work with a POSIX compliant shell like dash (which is the default /bin/sh symlink), or one of the earlier lines in your rc.local exits with non-zero, terminating the rest of the execution (set -e). But you figured out how to work around that by switching to /bin/bash and removing -e, so that works. > Package: bugs.debian.org > Severity: normal In the future, the bugs.debian.org pseudopackage is for reporting bugs in the bug tracking system itself, not this particular issue. [rc.local is installed by the sysvinit package, but since this is not actually a bug, I'm just closing it.] -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com Identical parts aren't. -- Beach's Law
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