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From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C)
Subject: Re: why isn't #! /bin/sh working for me on 386BSD?
Message-ID: <1993Jan20.210937.11024@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
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Date: Wed, 20 Jan 93 21:09:37 GMT
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In article <1993Jan19.215030.22775@cunews.carleton.ca> watpod77@alfred.carleton.ca (Andrew Cornwall) writes:
>In article <1jhmnkINNl5v@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> au141@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Amber M. Spillers) writes:
>> correct me if I am wrong butthe line
>>
>>#! /bin/sh
>>
>> at the beginning of a shell script (the first line) is suposed to
>>invoke the SH shell and execute the script under it right?
>>ksh and it refuses to invoke the correct shell to execute my scripts. :(
>>
>> well for me it does not seem to do that. I am using csh or bash ot
>>ksh and it refuses to invoke the correct shell to execute my scripts. :(
>
>The same is true for tcsh... I don't know what part of BSD invokes the
>shell specified in a script, but it ain't getting done. This is why
>you see "} missing" when you run nroff under a shell other than
>/bin/sh. Does anyone know how to fix it? 'Cos I don't... :-(
It's in kern_execve.c.
It's fixed by the patchkit.
Terry Lambert
terry@icarus.weber.edu
terry_lambert@novell.com
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