Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2015 14:04:25 +0100 From: Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz> To: "Michael B. Eichorn" <ike@michaeleichorn.com>, freebsd-stable Stable <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: su on 10.2: TERM: Undefined variable Message-ID: <5651BD59.8070203@quip.cz> In-Reply-To: <5651A102.8050106@quip.cz> References: <5650642B.5030707@quip.cz> <1448138525.10590.18.camel@michaeleichorn.com> <5651A102.8050106@quip.cz>
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Miroslav Lachman wrote on 11/22/2015 12:03: > Michael B. Eichorn wrote on 11/21/2015 21:42: >> On Sat, 2015-11-21 at 13:31 +0100, Miroslav Lachman wrote: >>> I noticed some weird behavior of "su" command in shell scripts >>> running >>> from cron after upgrade from FreeBSD 8.4 to 10.2. >>> >>> If I have this in script >>> >>> su -m www -c 'ls -l' >>> >>> then I get "TERM: Undefined variable" on the stderr if this script is >>> run from cron. >>> It works fine on FreeBSD 8.4 >>> >>> Is it intentional behavior? >>> >>> Miroslav Lachman >> >> I cannot reproduce your problem. I used the following script: >> >> #!/bin/sh >> >> echo "BEGIN TEST" >> echo $TERM >> >> su -m www -c 'ls -l' >> >> echo $TERM >> echo "END TEST" >> >> crontab is: >> * * * * * /root/test.sh >> >> and the result is: >> >> BEGIN TEST >> >> total 520765 >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 724002816 Aug 12 11:45 FreeBSD-10.2- >> RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso >> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 90 Nov 21 15:33 test.sh >> >> END TEST >> >> # freebsd-version >> 10.2-RELEASE-p7 >> > > It's a strange. I tried it on another machine which was installed as > 10.1 and upgraded to 10.2-p5 - and I got Undefined variable again: > > BEGIN TEST > > TERM: Undefined variable. > total 8984 > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 1536 Aug 12 13:48 bin > -rw------- 1 root wheel 9134080 Nov 22 00:06 dns-terror.core > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 836 Nov 5 10:39 extensions.ini > drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 512 Jul 29 17:49 settings > drwxr-xr-x 8 root wheel 512 Aug 9 04:59 settings_atago > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Aug 9 03:12 skel_devel > -rwxr--r-- 1 root wheel 90 Nov 22 11:52 term_test.sh > > END TEST > > Miroslav Lachman The only workaround I found is adding export TERM="" at the top of the script.
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