On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 21:53 +0100, Alessandro Garberi wrote:
> I'm not sure this is a bug, but I think so!
> Almost every initscript (/etc/init.d/*) ends with "exit 0", but ten of
> these files have a column (:) before the line.
Yes. Weird. I wonder what the purpose is.
> I think this prevents the line to be executed.
Yes.
$ cat /tmp/s
#!/bin/sh
echo a
: exit 0
echo b
$ /tmp/s
a
b
$ . /tmp/s
a
b
> Here follows the command I used to list the files and the list of files.
> Note that two of them (bootmisc.sh and checkroot.sh) have 2 more lines
> starting with column, please check them too!
>
> --- Command ---
>
> gateway:/etc/init.d# grep ^\[[:space:]]*: *
>
> bootmisc.sh:: > /var/run/utmp
> bootmisc.sh:: exit 0
> checkfs.sh:: exit 0
> checkroot.sh: : > /etc/mtab
> checkroot.sh:: exit 0
> halt:: exit 0
> mountall.sh:: exit 0
> mountnfs.sh:: exit 0
> rmnologin:: exit 0
> sendsigs:: exit 0
> umountfs:: exit 0
> umountnfs.sh:: exit 0
Note that
: > /etc/mtab
is correct.
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