Eric Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

| On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 03:33:35PM -0500, Eric Cooper wrote:
| >  2. xargs fails if find(1) call is empty
| >  [...]
| >  - use option "--no-run-if-empty" with xargs to prevent failure.
|
| Good catch.  I'll do that.
|
| > I see that the su man page says the "-c ..." argument should come
| > before the username, although it works on my systems in either order.
| > But I'll change it to conform to the documented behavior.
| 
| Now I see that the problem is that the postinst created the approx user
| with a "shell" of /bin/false, which won't work with the "su -c"
| option.  So this has been (silently) failing for a long time.

Thanks for looking into these. The errors catched to my eye after
error messages from cron.

Jari



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