On Sunday 22 August 2010 17:50:02 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> Apparently, though unproven, at 18:44 on Sunday 22 August 2010, Mick did
> opine
> 
> thusly:
> > > No, it's saying it wants EOF on a line all by itself with no leading
> > > whitespace. That thing that looks like a backtick is an open quote.
> > 
> > Hmm ... so what should the corrected logrotate script look like then?
> > 
> >        cat <<
> > 
> > EOF
> > 
> >        | /usr/bin/chronyc | sed '/^200 OK$/d'
> >        
> >        password $PASSWORD
> >        cyclelogs
> >        EOF
> > 
> > endscript
> > }
> 
> Change the other EOF instead.
> 
> It's a "here document", search for that phrase in man bash to find out
> more. It tells bash what will cause input redirection from stdin to end.
> The first EOF is the string to look for, the second one is the trigger
> that ends input

Thanks Alan, I think I got it now.  :-)
-- 
Regards,
Mick

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