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POSTGRESQL BUG REPORT TEMPLATE
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Your name : Marc Lehmann
Your email address : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
System Configuration
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Architecture (example: Intel Pentium) :
Operating System (example: Linux 2.0.26 ELF) :
PostgreSQL version (example: PostgreSQL-6.5.1): PostgreSQL-7.03beta3
Compiler used (example: gcc 2.8.0) :
Please enter a FULL description of your problem:
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initdb stops with
bin/initdb[483]: >&/dev/null : illegal file descriptor name
Of course, >&/dev/null is not valid shell syntax (it's probably a bash
extension :()
Please describe a way to repeat the problem. Please try to provide a
concise reproducible example, if at all possible:
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Just run initdb
If you know how this problem might be fixed, list the solution below:
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The recommended way when doing _bash_ programming is to use /bin/bash or
something similar in the shebang line.
If the shell scripts are supposed to run with /bin/sh, they should use
something like
echo >/dev/null 2>&1
to get rid of both stdout and stderr.
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