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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]