I have a script that, among other things, removes a line from /etc/ftpchroot.
I do this with this method: cat /etc/ftpchroot | grep -v $remove > /etc/ftpchroot Easy. You cat all of the file except the line you want to remove, and redirect it back to itself. The problem is, about 50% of the time, I end up with an empty ftpchroot file. It is zero bytes. This obviously has nothing to do with a bad variable, since if it wasn't there, the starting file and ending file would just be identical. Instead, I get an empty file. I have reproduced this with other files in other places - works some of the time, other times gives me an empty file. What gives ? (note, I know a lot of ways to work around this - so I'm not so much asking how to fix this, as I am asking "why does this happen" ?) _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
