On Tue 17 Nov 2015 at 21:18:57 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 06:56:40PM +, Brian wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > My example: gv does not recognise the PDF file 'test' as something it is
> > *capable of opening*. With 'test' as the only file in a directory the
> > command gv
On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 5:17 PM, shawn wilson wrote:
> shouldn't be relied on (also see ftimes xmagic for a more featureful
> magic implementation w/e sf comes back up).
Ugh, it's back now:
http://ftimes.sourceforge.net/FTimes/XMagic.shtml
;
>> If magic were smarter (was able to derive from syntax or had regex
>> capability in the format), it could've still told me I was looking at
>> a script (and not just a bunch of text - which is next to useless). It
>> doesn't, so arguing that magic could be used (n
the format), it could've still told me I was looking at
> a script (and not just a bunch of text - which is next to useless). It
> doesn't, so arguing that magic could be used (not an argument I've
> seen, but one I was expecting and figured I'd preempt) instead of a
ention that it's in AT&T Unix since 1979. I'd venture to
> say that nowadays it is an integral part of Unix.
In fact the shebang in ASCII is the magic number for a shell script. I
think that the relevant standard would be the SUS.
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7;s in AT&T Unix since 1979. I'd venture to
> say that nowadays it is an integral part of Unix.
>
Merely pointing out it's not a spec. But yeah, it's older than me :)
>> So, magic dropped the ball - should've been identified as a shell
>> script (due to th
On Tuesday 17 November 2015 20:21:23 Brian wrote:
>
> I've also asked for a *concrete example* of a program not opening a file
> because of the lack of an extension. It hasn't yet been given.
$ gunzip file
gzip: file: unknown suffix -- ignored
$mv file other.gz
$gunzip other.gz
$ls
other
you're
> supposed to put a shebang at the top" - afaik, it's not in POSIX
> anywhere:
> http://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/various/shebang/
You forgot to mention that it's in AT&T Unix since 1979. I'd venture to
say that nowadays it is an integral part of Unix.
>
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On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 06:56:40PM +, Brian wrote:
[...]
> My example: gv does not recognise the PDF file 'test' as something it is
> *capable of opening*. With 'test' as the only file in a directory the
> command gv plus TAB completion doesn't p
ts extension). If you create a pdf, it is bad to
> >> >> >> not
> >> >> >> have the pdf extension - you've lost data.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > How have you lost data?
> >> >>
> >> >> You loo
magic dropped the ball - should've been identified as a shell
script (due to the use of "echo"
7;ve lost data.
> > >
> > > How have you lost data?
> >
> > You loose what the file type (data) should be if you save a file w/o
> > an extension. Again, this is fine for an installed program (no one
> > cares as long as it works) but not so good fo
te a pdf, it is bad to
>>> >> >> not
>>> >> >> have the pdf extension - you've lost data.
>>> >> >
>>> >> > How have you lost data?
>>> >>
>>> >> You loose what the file type (data) shoul
-foo to scan-foo.pdf. When resent
>> >> >> > it
>> >> >>
>> >> >> communicated (via its extension). If you create a pdf, it is bad to not
>> >> >> have the pdf extension - you've lost data.
>> >>
ension). If you create a pdf, it is bad to not
> >> >> have the pdf extension - you've lost data.
> >> >
> >> > How have you lost data?
> >>
> >> You loose what the file type (data) should be if you save a file w/o
> >> an ex
data?
>>
>> You loose what the file type (data) should be if you save a file w/o
>> an extension. Again, this is fine for an installed program (no one
>> cares as long as it works) but not so good for data that is processed
>> by another program or a script I wa
;> an extension. Again, this is fine for an installed program (no one
>> cares as long as it works) but not so good for data that is processed
>> by another program or a script I want to edit.
>
> PDF files are recognized by their header not their extension. Create
> a test.p
n, this is fine for an installed program (no one
> cares as long as it works) but not so good for data that is processed
> by another program or a script I want to edit.
You would have to give a specific example where a file processed by a
program or script fails to open for this argumen
he pdf extension - you've lost data.
> >
> > How have you lost data?
> >
>
> You loose what the file type (data) should be if you save a file w/o
> an extension. Again, this is fine for an installed program (no one
> cares as long as it works) but not so good for
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On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 07:02:01AM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 09:31:53AM -0500, shawn wilson wrote:
> > On Nov 16, 2015 5:37 PM, "Lisi Reisz" wrote:
> > > department has been trying for an hour". Puzzled, because I though
u've lost data.
>
> How have you lost data?
>
You loose what the file type (data) should be if you save a file w/o
an extension. Again, this is fine for an installed program (no one
cares as long as it works) but not so good for data that is processed
by another program or a script I want to edit.
On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 09:31:53AM -0500, shawn wilson wrote:
> On Nov 16, 2015 5:37 PM, "Lisi Reisz" wrote:
> > department has been trying for an hour". Puzzled, because I thought I had
> > sent a .pdf, and had checked that it opened fine in Evince, I looked at
> the
> > file - groaned - and ren
On Nov 16, 2015 5:37 PM, "Lisi Reisz" wrote:
>
> On Monday 16 November 2015 19:33:51 David Wright wrote:
> > On Mon 16 Nov 2015 at 06:54:40 (+0100), Martin Str|mberg wrote:
> > > In article David Wright
> wrote:
> > > > As for script-file
ows folks do ("Makefile.mak",
horrors!) just because, with their slavish DOS roots, every file gotta
have an extension).
Conventions are good, slavery is bad. Or some such :-)
To recap, and simplifying very much. IMHO IMHO IMHO:
executable script, independently of "int
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On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 12:29:00PM -0600, David Wright wrote:
[...]
> > Whereas in UNIX, a file name is just a string: very few characters are
> > special: steer clear of NUL and slash. If you want to have an easy life
> > with shell scripts, steer c
On Monday 16 November 2015 19:33:51 David Wright wrote:
> On Mon 16 Nov 2015 at 06:54:40 (+0100), Martin Str|mberg wrote:
> > In article David Wright
wrote:
> > > As for script-file extensions in DOS, there was really only .BAT
> > > wasn't there?, so the idea of
On Mon 16 Nov 2015 at 06:54:40 (+0100), Martin Str|mberg wrote:
> In article David Wright
> wrote:
> > As for script-file extensions in DOS, there was really only .BAT
> > wasn't there?, so the idea of distinguishing .bash, .csh, .py, .pl,
> > .sh, .zsh etc a
n,
> > say, DOS/360 etc),
>
> I guess that comes from CP/M, DOS being a cheap ripoff therefrom. But
> that's more or less the horizon of my memories.
>
> >going back to the origins of unix and further.
>
> Unix? File Extensions? -- Citation nee
On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 06:54:40AM +0100, Martin Str|mberg wrote:
> In article David Wright
> wrote:
> > As for script-file extensions in DOS, there was really only .BAT
> > wasn't there?, so the idea of distinguishing .bash, .csh, .py, .pl,
> > .sh, .zsh etc a
In article David Wright
wrote:
> As for script-file extensions in DOS, there was really only .BAT
> wasn't there?, so the idea of distinguishing .bash, .csh, .py, .pl,
> .sh, .zsh etc as being inherited from DOS is difficult for me to
> understand.
Perhaps it's because
checkfs.sh*
>
> [...]
>
> Very smart. I didn't say the scripts are inherited from DOS. That bad
> habit is, definitely.
Well file extensions in general are of course much older than DOS
(assuming you mean MSDOS-compatible rather than the old meaning as in,
say, DOS/360 etc), goi
You can call a function from within a sourced file and it'll run (no matter
x bit).
So:
# ~/bin/runner.sh
runner () {
echo foo
}
runner
# ~/.bashrc
PATH="$PATH:~/bin"
source runner.sh
On Nov 14, 2015 4:51 AM, "Pol Hallen" wrote:
> Put the command at the end of /home/user/.profile
>> It works
Put the command at the end of /home/user/.profile
It works for me.
thanks for help but does not work :-/
Pol
extension" (as you call it: DOS, see?) might
make sense (I'd say a hint in the filename) is when your script isn't
an executable in itself but a collection of functions you *source*
from another shell: this so-called "shell library" has to be shell
code (i.e. you can't
any updates availables showing me only the total number of
packages, so inside /home/user/.bashrc, exactly I've:
/home/user/bin/script1.sh &
Put the command at the end of ".profile".
It works for me.
Lotek
the problem is "&" because without it script d
On Fri 13 Nov 2015 at 16:08:07 (-0600), Don Armstrong wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Nov 2015, David Wright wrote:
> > The implementation isn't necessarily irrelevant when you have to
> > maintain the scripts yourself. Just at the level of pressing F3 in mc,
> > or running less, it saves time knowing what you
On Fri, 13 Nov 2015, David Wright wrote:
> The implementation isn't necessarily irrelevant when you have to
> maintain the scripts yourself. Just at the level of pressing F3 in mc,
> or running less, it saves time knowing what you expect to appear on
> the screen.
A good $EDITOR takes care of that
On Fri 13 Nov 2015 at 11:18:17 (-0600), Don Armstrong wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Nov 2015, David Wright wrote:
> > I name my scripts in ~/bin with an extension corresponding to their
> > contents: .pl .py .sh etc. Where I'm working on alternative versions,
> > I might have more than one language. Extensio
On Fri, 13 Nov 2015, David Wright wrote:
> I name my scripts in ~/bin with an extension corresponding to their
> contents: .pl .py .sh etc. Where I'm working on alternative versions,
> I might have more than one language. Extensionless filenames are
> either links or binaries. What's bad about this
On Fri 13 Nov 2015 at 14:43:39 (+0100), to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> (as an aside: it's bad custom inherited from DOS to name shell scripts
> with an .sh ending. No ending is the right thing here).
So these were all DOS scripts once, were they?
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1248 Apr 21 2014 /etc/init.d/b
nly the total number of
packages, so inside /home/user/.bashrc, exactly I've:
/home/user/bin/script1.sh &
the problem is "&" because without it script does run
after executing of script, output goes to shell with "| wall"
thanks
Pol
On Friday 13 November 2015 08:50:25 Pol Hallen wrote:
> Hi all :-)
>
> How can I execute a script inside a script?
>
> I putted inside /home/user/.bashrc a line like this:
>
> /home/user/bin/script1.sh
>
> but the script does not run...
>
> any idea?
>
Actual
On Friday 13 November 2015 08:50:25 Pol Hallen wrote:
> Hi all :-)
>
> How can I execute a script inside a script?
>
> I putted inside /home/user/.bashrc a line like this:
>
> /home/user/bin/script1.sh
>
> but the script does not run...
>
> any idea?
>
chmod
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On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 02:50:25PM +0100, Pol Hallen wrote:
> Hi all :-)
>
> How can I execute a script inside a script?
>
> I putted inside /home/user/.bashrc a line like this:
>
> /home/user/bin/script1.sh
>
>
On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 02:50:25PM +0100, Pol Hallen wrote:
Hi all :-)
How can I execute a script inside a script?
I putted inside /home/user/.bashrc a line like this:
/home/user/bin/script1.sh
but the script does not run...
What is your evidence for the statement that it "does no
Hi all :-)
How can I execute a script inside a script?
I putted inside /home/user/.bashrc a line like this:
/home/user/bin/script1.sh
but the script does not run...
any idea?
thanks for help! :-)
Pol
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Hi,
I've written a new script to promote the correct use of kernel options
and queue disciplines for improving network performance in Linux.
I'm keen for feeback technical or not.
https://github.com/mikejonesey/net-check
Kind Reg
le in order to change
the margins and customize headings; that I why I ended up putting the
customization into a bash script "enscript+".
However, just now, when I executed "enscript *" on a directory of files,
to see whether the unmodified package could handle globs, all of the
only the first
> file in the directory.
This is because you use only the first argument "$1" in
your script.
The globbing happens before your script gets started.
The shell parser converts your command
enscript+ *
to a list of arguments
enscript+ file1 file2 ...
which your script gets
2015-09-20 22:20 GMT+02:00 :
> I have been using the following script (named "enscript+") as a substitute
> for the package "a2ps":
>
> #!/bin/bash
> enscript --media=letter -2 --landscape --borders \
> --header='$n|A.D. $D{%Y.%m.%d}|$* gmt |
I have been using the following script (named "enscript+") as a substitute
for the package "a2ps":
#!/bin/bash
enscript --media=letter -2 --landscape --borders \
--header='$n|A.D. $D{%Y.%m.%d}|$* gmt | Page $% of $=' "$1"
The script works p
On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 06:47:03AM -0500, Harold M. Meneley wrote:
> Hi, I just tried using Jessie with the new Iceweasel. I went to several
> web sites that worked before and I can't seem to get the java scripts
> associated with buttons to work. I tried installing java, openjdk and
> icedtea with
Hi, I just tried using Jessie with the new Iceweasel. I went to several
web sites that worked before and I can't seem to get the java scripts
associated with buttons to work. I tried installing java, openjdk and
icedtea with no results. Can't supply anymore information other than
clean install of J
Stuart Longland:
> I've used the OpenVPN init script as a template for creating my init
scripts, [...]
And that's the point at which you went wrong. OpenVPN was one of the
earliest things converted to systemd with its service management set up
very differently to the way that
Hi Stuart,
Am 20.08.2015 um 23:48 schrieb Stuart Longland:
> I've used the OpenVPN init script as a template for creating my init
> scripts, which allows me to not only start and stop all drivers, but
> also start or stop an individual driver. e.g.
>
> /etc/init.d/
ata
> interface for trending and analysis. Basically the data-gathering
> guts of a SCADA system.
>
> The system is built on the Unix philosophy, so each communications
> driver and service runs as a separate process, communicating over
> AMQP. So far so good.
>
> I'v
ically the data-gathering
guts of a SCADA system.
The system is built on the Unix philosophy, so each communications
driver and service runs as a separate process, communicating over
AMQP. So far so good.
I've used the OpenVPN init script as a template for creating my init
scripts, which allows
And already goofed up.
I thought I had tested it but I guess not.
The attached version doesn't work if there are no updates. The current
version is on Github:
https://gist.github.com/weichert/4931be14cc93443ad74f
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Hi,
since there isn't an update-notifier for the XFCE panel anymore and
pk-update-icon isn't in Jessie and apparently has large dependencies
to build as of yet, this is a small script to do just that.
It uses xfce4-genmon-plugin (or actually it's the other way around).
Do
Hi Reco,
On 09/07/15 16:43, Reco wrote:
>> > Is there a way to tell systemd to LEAVE the script alone while I debug
>> > it and get it working?
> Yes. Setting _SYSTEMCTL_SKIP_REDIRECT environment variable to any value
> should allow you to run it directly.
Ahh, that
Hi.
On Thu, 09 Jul 2015 14:37:52 +1000
Stuart Longland wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Is there any way to debug a LSB init script under systemd? I'm trying
> to write an init script for a service that starts multiple daemons, much
> like OpenVPN and how it starts a separate daemon
Hi all,
Is there any way to debug a LSB init script under systemd? I'm trying
to write an init script for a service that starts multiple daemons, much
like OpenVPN and how it starts a separate daemon for each connection.
So I've taken the OpenVPN init script and hacked it to make it
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On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 08:16:29AM +0200, rudu wrote:
> Le 16/06/2015 17:38, rudu a écrit :
[...]
> When launched from the symlink, this code set the working directory
> to if-up.d where no python script was to be found.
> My bad, but
.
I overlooked some piece of code I thought was of no consequence ... but
it was :
EXEDIR=$(dirname $0)
echo $EXEDIR
cd "${EXEDIR}"
When launched from the symlink, this code set the working directory to
if-up.d where no python script was to be found.
My bad, but thanks a lot to Tomas
can't figure out :
[...]
Thank you Tomas,
You're right I should have pasted my script in the first place (see below).
By the way, you'll see I already thought about this $PATH thing, but
unless I forgot something that doesn't seem to be the case here.
So, briefly said, that lin
igure out :
[...]
> Thank you Tomas,
> You're right I should have pasted my script in the first place (see below).
> By the way, you'll see I already thought about this $PATH thing, but
> unless I forgot something that doesn't seem to be the case here.
> So, briefly
Le 16/06/2015 12:47, to...@tuxteam.de a écrit :
On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 11:23:51AM +0200, rudu wrote:
Hello,
There's something I just can't figure out :
I wrote a bash script to compare my actual IP address to the one of
my DynDNS service provider.
That bash script calls a pyt
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On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 11:23:51AM +0200, rudu wrote:
> Hello,
> There's something I just can't figure out :
> I wrote a bash script to compare my actual IP address to the one of
> my DynDNS service provider.
> That bash scr
Hello,
There's something I just can't figure out :
I wrote a bash script to compare my actual IP address to the one of my
DynDNS service provider.
That bash script calls a python script (provided by the DynDNS service)
to update my DynDNS Address if necessary.
Everything runs smoot
documentation implied it had
originally been targeted at classroom environment.
Can anyone identify this?
script, but I find it quite useful to have a bash function defined as
scrip ()
{
script typescript-${HOSTNAME}-$(date +%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M-%S)-$1
}
so that you get a host/timestamp in the
ocumentation implied it had
> originally been targeted at classroom environment.
>
> Can anyone identify this?
script, but I find it quite useful to have a bash function defined as
scrip ()
{
script typescript-${HOSTNAME}-$(date +%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M-%S)-$1
}
so that you get a host/ti
an.org helped me further: I do
> not have to change anything, just calling update-rc.d for my init script
> works, just like it did before in wheezy. I had read that systemd supports
> LSB init scripts, but i did not expect that this compatibility goes so
> far.
>
> But there is s
.d for my init script
works, just like it did before in wheezy. I had read that systemd supports
LSB init scripts, but i did not expect that this compatibility goes so
far.
But there is still one problem: The output of my script is not displayed
on the screen.
Regards
Christoph
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Then, I rebooted again and the result was the same as before.
Why does systemd not follow these instructions that my script has to be
executed before multi-user?
You are starting your service as part of multi-user.target, so you can't
order it before it at the same time.
Also, targets
wouldn't do that).
[...]
> Then, I called systemctl to set the correct symlinks for script.target and
> script.service.
>
> Then, I rebooted again and the result was the same as before.
>
> Why does systemd not follow these instructions that my script has to be
> executed b
fter=" units also in "Requires=" so that starting your unit
> causes the "After=" units to be started too (but, presumably, if they're
> optional, you wouldn't do that).
As a first attempt, I created a file /lib/systemd/system/script.service,
looking lik
On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 09:20:53AM +0100, Christoph Pleger wrote:
> Hello,
>
> for many years and up to Debian 7, I am using update-rc.d to define a
> specific location in the boot order, where a script is executed which
> automatically performs some administrative tasks. The scr
Hello,
for many years and up to Debian 7, I am using update-rc.d to define a
specific location in the boot order, where a script is executed which
automatically performs some administrative tasks. The script is executed
after only very basic tasks have been performed, and before all other
tasks
Sven Hartge wrote:
> You don't need the manually invoke /bin/bash if you just add
> "#!/bin/bash" as the first line of your shell script, which Don already
> pointed out:
> >> 3) It may not be executable.
Yes. Make sure it is executable.
chmod a+x /hom
Manikandan M wrote:
> I couldn't find why the script is not working in cron. Just replaced the
> crontab entry with the following and it worked
> * 9 * * * /bin/bash /user/bin/email-script
This will run the script _every minute_ on the ninth hour. I don't think
this is w
Hi,
I couldn't find why the script is not working in cron. Just replaced the
crontab entry with the following and it worked
* 9 * * * /bin/bash /user/bin/email-script
Thanks everyone for your help.
Regards,
Mani
On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 9:13 PM, Don Armstrong wrote:
> On Fri, 02
On Fri, 02 Jan 2015, Manikandan M wrote:
> I have written a small script to email (using ssmpt) some details, and
> scheduled it in crontab. The script is running as per time mentioned in the
> cron but ssmtp is not sending the mail. please find the details below.
>
> user@host ~
Manikandan M wrote:
> I have written a small script to email (using ssmpt) some details, and
> scheduled it in crontab. The script is running as per time mentioned in the
> cron but ssmtp is not sending the mail. please find the details below.
A couple of details to provide back
On Fri, Jan 02, 2015 at 06:39:27PM +, Manikandan M wrote:
Are other scripts running fine? Can you throw a silly date >>/tmp/imalive into
it and see?
Does ssmtp (I'm unfamilar with it) requies some special env-var that can be
unset when running from Cron?
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Thanks for the quick response Patrick. I have given the full path for all
the executables in the script. Still i'm not getting the email. The first
line of the script works which updates the details-file. The third line of
the script works which updates the status of the email operation. Bot
On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 1:39 PM, Manikandan M wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have written a small script to email (using ssmpt) some details, and
> scheduled it in crontab. The script is running as per time mentioned in the
> cron but ssmtp is not sending the mail. please find the details below
Hi,
I have written a small script to email (using ssmpt) some details, and
scheduled it in crontab. The script is running as per time mentioned in the
cron but ssmtp is not sending the mail. please find the details below.
user@host ~ $ cat bin/email-script
/home/user/bin/actual-script
On Lu, 22 dec 14, 10:51:26, pe...@easthope.ca wrote:
> This command in a shell script removes unwanted log files.
>
> for i in $( echo *.Log ); do
> /bin/rm $i;
> echo "Removed $i."
> done
>
> In the edge case of no matching files, rm complains.
> /b
On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 10:51:26AM -0800, pe...@easthope.ca wrote:
> This command in a shell script removes unwanted log files.
>
> for i in $( echo *.Log ); do
> /bin/rm $i;
> echo "Removed $i."
> done
>
> In the edge case of no matching files, rm c
On 2014-12-22 19:23 +0100, Rob Owens wrote:
> $ ls -l /bin/dirname
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 13880 Jan 30 2007 /bin/dirname
>
> $ file /bin/dirname
> dirname: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV),
> dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.4.1, stripped
>
> Simila
On 22/12/14 19:51, pe...@easthope.ca wrote:
> This command in a shell script removes unwanted log files.
>
> for i in $( echo *.Log ); do
> /bin/rm $i;
> echo "Removed $i."
> done
>
> In the edge case of no matching files, rm complains.
> /bin/rm: c
On 12/22/2014 at 01:51 PM, pe...@easthope.ca wrote:
> This command in a shell script removes unwanted log files.
>
> for i in $( echo *.Log ); do
> /bin/rm $i;
> echo "Removed $i."
> done
>
> In the edge case of no matching files, rm complains.
> /b
This command in a shell script removes unwanted log files.
for i in $( echo *.Log ); do
/bin/rm $i;
echo "Removed $i."
done
In the edge case of no matching files, rm complains.
/bin/rm: cannot remove `*.Log': No such file or directory
If echo is replaced with ls, it compl
On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 10:55:15AM -0500, Rob Owens wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 04:41:05PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
> > On 2014-12-22 04:10 +0100, Rob Owens wrote:
> > > So I'm still not sure why /etc/init.d/mysql cannot find "dirname" and
> > > "basename" when running at system boot, but it
On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 04:41:05PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2014-12-22 04:10 +0100, Rob Owens wrote:
> > So I'm still not sure why /etc/init.d/mysql cannot find "dirname" and
> > "basename" when running at system boot, but it can find them when run
> > from a terminal after boot.
>
> Maybe
On 2014-12-22 04:10 +0100, Rob Owens wrote:
> I rebooted and found that the path is fine:
>
> /sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin
A notable difference to the default PATH of a logged in user (with the
standard /etc/profile, anyway) is that init places /bin before /usr/bin.
> So I'm still not sure why
On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 06:07:20PM -0500, Rob Owens wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 10:32:07PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
> > On 2014-12-21 21:58 +0100, Rob Owens wrote:
> > > I know I could add a PATH statement to the init script, but this problem
> > > is my own d
On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 10:32:07PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2014-12-21 21:58 +0100, Rob Owens wrote:
>
> > The /etc/init.d/mysql script on one of my systems is complaning that it
> > can't find /bin/dirname and /bin/basename. Line 24 of the script is
> > this
On 2014-12-21 21:58 +0100, Rob Owens wrote:
> The /etc/init.d/mysql script on one of my systems is complaning that it
> can't find /bin/dirname and /bin/basename. Line 24 of the script is
> this:
>
> SELF=$(cd $(dirname $0); pwd -P)/$(basename $0)
>
> Both dirname and
The /etc/init.d/mysql script on one of my systems is complaning that it
can't find /bin/dirname and /bin/basename. Line 24 of the script is
this:
SELF=$(cd $(dirname $0); pwd -P)/$(basename $0)
Both dirname and basename live in /usr/bin, not /bin.
I know I could add a PATH statement t
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