OK, you guys always give me censory overload :) How about this instead, I need to make the command that I put in /etc/rc.local to execute at boot time. In csh it cannot but in sh it can, how do I make just this one command execute at boot time under a different shell that wont give me dreaded "ambiguous output" message? This is the offending command: '/usr/local/bin/tcpserver -R -x/var/qmail.control/relays.cdb -u5001 -g5000 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 2>&1 | /var/qmail/bin/splogger &' As you can see having to type this in everytime it reboots is wearing on me quickly. I think what is causing my problem is the pipe(|) but I'm no expert *nix type guy to figure out a solution.
Jon -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Carl Tucker Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 6:04 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [luau] Changing shells On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 05:56:18PM -0500, MonMotha wrote: > Changing the default shell on unix (linux, bsd, commercial unixes, etc) > generally means changing the link /bin/sh to whatever you want. In this > case, /bin/sh is probably a symlink to /bin/csh. To change to bash, > link it to /bin/bash. Aagh! No, don't do that. /bin/sh must be a bourne-family shell, preferably sh itself (for speed). This is a POSIX mandated shell that many programs and utilities depend on to work as expected. FreeBSD has csh as the default shell for root, and an additional UID 0 account called toor. The toor account is the one you should use if you want to use a different shell than csh. You can change it with chsh(1) or vipw(8). Nothing prevents you from changing root's shell, of course, but it can come back to bite you. For instance, on my system, bash is /usr/local/bin/bash. What if my system crashes and I have to boot single user with /usr unmounted. Uh oh, no shell. Root's shell should be on the root partition, and be statically linked - the other kicker. If the shared libraries your shell is linked against are in /usr/include, same problem if /usr is unmounted. For more info, see /usr/share/doc/faq/index.html , section 7.12 and /usr/share/doc/handbook/index.html , section 3.7 -- Carl Tucker [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ LUAU mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/luau
