From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 27 9:33:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC86437B401 for ; Wed, 27 Nov 2002 09:33:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from bellavista.cz (mail.bellavista.cz [62.168.44.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1829743E88 for ; Wed, 27 Nov 2002 09:33:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from neuhauser@bellavista.cz) Received: from lilith.bellavista.cz ([10.1.0.1]) by bellavista.cz (8.9.3/8.9.8) with ESMTP id SAA25321; Wed, 27 Nov 2002 18:33:09 +0100 Received: from freepuppy.bellavista.cz (freepuppy.bellavista.cz [10.0.0.10]) by lilith.bellavista.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFE3028; Wed, 27 Nov 2002 19:30:55 +0100 (CET) Received: by freepuppy.bellavista.cz (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 746492FDAB2; Wed, 27 Nov 2002 18:33:03 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 18:33:03 +0100 From: Roman Neuhauser To: Brian Jackson Cc: Kris Kennaway , paul beard , Clint Olsen , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.7 changes to /bin/sh? Message-ID: <20021127173303.GO77198@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> Mail-Followup-To: Brian Jackson , Kris Kennaway , paul beard , Clint Olsen , questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20021127065640.GA20089@rot13.obsecurity.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG # b.k.jackson@verizon.net / 2002-11-27 09:31:33 -0500: > On Wednesday, November 27, 2002, at 01:56 AM, Kris Kennaway wrote: > >I already told you in the section of my mail you deleted. > > No, it's the "& &&" construction, which is illegal and should never > have been allowed. Update to the latest version of the port and > submit a PR if the bug persists. > > Kris please, quote others correctly. this looks like you wrote this message with someone named Kris. > I guess I didn't understand your answer (above) to the question "What > changed?". If the port was broken from the get go, I think it was odd > that I only noticed that the database on my server wasn't starting > after my upgrade to 4.7 (which of course very well may have been the > case :) you guess right: you don't understand his answer. :) he says: "/bin/sh was broken up to 4.7 in that it allowed "& &&". the port that broke for you abused this bug; you can get rid of it by updating your ports tree. doing so will get you an updated version of the port in which the $PREFIX/etc/rc.d script was fixed to not rely on that buggy behavior." Kris, please correct me if I read that wrong. -- If you cc me or remove the list(s) completely I'll most likely ignore your message. see http://www.eyrie.org./~eagle/faqs/questions.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message