On Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 05:18:59PM -0700, tony mancill wrote: > There are two ways around this, but both would require a bit of policy. > First, we could force the init.d scripts to use the -u command line option > to the shell. (If an unset variable is referenced, the script will die. - > sorta like -e for the inst scripts.)
That's way evil. It's perfectly legitimate to test for variable nullity with mechanisms like this: if [ "$FOO" ]; then do_something else do_something_else fi -- G. Branden Robinson | It's not a matter of alienating authors. Debian GNU/Linux | They have every right to license their [EMAIL PROTECTED] | software however we like. http://www.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Craig Sanders, in debian-devel
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