Martin Costabel wrote: > Good catch. To me this looks like a bug in Leopard's /bin/ps: When the > "-a" flag is present, it ignores the "-p pid" flag. I have immediately > filed a bug with Apple's bugreporter. > > The environment variables (in particular $HOME and $USER) with which the > installer runs the postflight script keep changing between OS releases, > sometimes between minor releases. There was a time when the current > version of postflight did the right thing, but on Leopard your > suggestion is looks correct, and it looks correct for Tiger, too. > > However, I think this needs some more testing: When I try to execute > this by hand from a root command line prompt, I get weird error messages > (perhaps due to my using tcsh as login shell): > > root# sudo -i -u costabel /sw/bin/pathsetup.sh > Badly placed ()'s. > > With another command it gets weirder: > > root# sudo -i -u costabel /usr/bin/printenv HOME > \312\376\272\276^B^G^C^PEp^L^R: Command not found. > ^QU\211\345WVS\203\354,\213u^H\213]^L\353^E\350\261\377\377\377\307D: > Event not found. > > There is definitely something fishy about this "-i" flag when used with > a command. On the other hand, "-H" seems to work correctly: > > root# sudo -H -u costabel /usr/bin/printenv HOME > /Users/costabel > > root# sudo -H -u costabel /sw/bin/pathsetup.sh > -------------------------------- > Setting up your Fink environment > -------------------------------- > > Your environment seems to be correctly > set up for Fink already. > Yeah, -H is probably what you want more than -i. In terms of behavior changing across versions, this isn't something we should run into again - by using -H you explicitly specify the behavior you want; this is a flag that is standardized across every sudo I've run into.
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