On Thu, 2013-12-05 at 10:44 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-12-05 at 10:43 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > On Thu, 2013-12-05 at 10:31 +0100, Steffen Dettmer wrote:
> > > logrotate seems to execute "postrotate" scripts using /bin/sh and I
> > > found no way where to specify which script interpreter to use.
> > > Starting with a she-bang line seem to have no effect. Even if I
> > > manually run logrotate as root who has /bin/bash as login shell,
> > > /bin/sh is used.
> > >
> > > How to make logrotate to use the correct interpreter for "postrotate"
> > > scripts?
> >
> > The Magic line is used, if you run it directly
> >
> > myscript
> >
> > using
> >
> > sh myscript
> > dash myscript
> > bash myscript
> >
> > will use the named bash. sh usually is a link to bash or dash. Sometimes
> ^^^^^ shell ;), bash, dash or whatever you type for
before ^^
> myscript
> > it's smart to write scripts that run with dash and bash.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Ralf
> >
>
I'm sorry, I won't correct additional mistakes, but since my English is
broken, it might be unclear what I mean.
If you rewrite the script, don't change the shebang, but the line that
does execute the other script. change sh otherscript to bash otherscript
or dash otherscript or something else.
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