In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In /etc/* there are severeal scripts that are named *.sh. Most of
>them are not marked executable and don't contain a "#! /bin/sh" line.
>
>Thus, to run them you need to "sh foo.sh" or "source foo.sh" them.
>This raises a problem if the script contains code like "test -x foo ||
>exit 0". This would cause the executing shell to be terminated if it
>uses source to run the script.
I would like to mention the following:
- I introduced this since this is what Solaris does and I
blindly copied the whole /etc/rcS.d setup from Solaris,
including the "source .sh scripts" convention
- It speeds up the boot process, Debian boots slow enough
as it is at the moment.
> a) Scripts in /etc/init.d, /etc/rc.boot and similar directories that
> have the ".sh" suffix may be run by source'ing them. Thus they
> must not contain any `exit' statements. If they need to quit the
> script they have to use return instead
>
> b) All scripts in /etc/init.d, /etc/rc.boot and similar directories
> have to be standalone shell scripts. They must have the 'x' flag
> turned on and contain a regular command to execute them in the
> first line (such as "#! /bin/sh"). They must not be called *.sh.
>
>A mixture of this does not make sense imho:
And is impossible - since return doesn't work in a normal script.
Ash doesn't complain about it but bash does:
$ sh -c return
sh: return: can only `return' from a function or sourced script
$ ash -c 'echo hello; return; echo foo'
hello
Mike.
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