On 14 January 2011 21:51, Mart Frauenlob <mart.frauen...@chello.at> wrote:
> in debian lenny (and previous releases) the default shell aka sh is bash. > the file /bin/sh is a symbolic link to /bin/bash. > however in squeeze afaik the default shell is dash. > so your script starting with the shebang #!/bin/sh will not be run from > bash. > to ensure you want it to be executed by bash (if you don't start it with > 'bash filename') put the shebang line as #!/bin/bash (#!/bin/bash -x to > debug). Not sure exactly what bash (as compared to sh) specific things I might be experiencing but from the man page: "If bash is invoked with the name sh, it tries to mimic the startup behavior of historical versions of sh as closely as possible, while conforming to the POSIX standard as well." I didn't previously state it but I am running Lenny 5.0.7 on this machine. I don't like it when things break unexpectedly. Thanks Mart, Hopefully that may shed some further light on my problem? Adrian -- 24x7x365 != 24x7x52 Stupid or bad maths? <erno> hm. I've lost a machine.. literally _lost_. it responds to ping, it works completely, I just can't figure out where in my apartment it is. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/AANLkTikyN-73Qe-KevWEHUWbOfrzOe-AePiTX46=w...@mail.gmail.com
