Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 14:37:53 +0200 From: Cyrille Lefevre <cyrille.lefevre@laposte.net> To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu Cc: freebsd-ports-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/50739: Maintainer update: astro/setiathome (nobody->setiathome) Message-ID: <20030412123752.GA60423@gits.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20030411205245.GA84569@blossom.cjclark.org> References: <200304090512.h395CGrJ014714@freefall.freebsd.org> <20030411200506.GA36868@gits.dyndns.org> <20030411205245.GA84569@blossom.cjclark.org>
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On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 01:52:45PM -0700, Crist J. Clark wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 10:05:06PM +0200, Cyrille Lefevre wrote:
> [snip]
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > someone reports me that the newer wrapper don't work w/ an account
> > using the csh as the login shell such as the default root account.
> > I don't see this problam since my root account uses a bourne like
> > shell.
> >
> > so, could you replace 'su -fm' by 'SHELL=/bin/sh su -fm' in
> > files/setiathome.sh.
>
> That will not fix the problem. The shell spawned by su(1) will still
> be the user's login shell. At least that's what my understading of
> su(1) and some quick tests show.
>
> How about,
>
> ( echo "\
> cd ${seti_wrkdir}/${i} || exit; \
> .
> .
> .
> done > /dev/null" |
> su -fm ${seti_user} /bin/sh ) &
>
> Not pretty, but it should do what you want.
I'll try this way.
Cyrille.
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Cyrille Lefevre mailto:cyrille.lefevre@laposte.net
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