Bug 448096 – incorrect shebang for runscript.sh

• Product: Gentoo Hosted Projects
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description Arvind Jayaprakash 2012-12-21 17:26:46 UTC]

The file /lib[64]/rc/sh/runscript.sh is actually a bash script and not a pure POSIX shell compliant code. The script fails to execute successfuly on such systems


Reproducible: Always




change the shebang to say #!/bin/bash as opposed to #!/bin/sh

[Comment 1 SpanKY 2012-12-21 19:03:05 UTC]

no actual details as to why you think it doesn't conform to POSIX.  please do not file vague bugs.

[Comment 2 William Hubbs 2012-12-21 19:11:47 UTC]

(In reply to comment #0)
> The file /lib[64]/rc/sh/runscript.sh is actually a bash script and not a
> pure POSIX shell compliant code. The script fails to execute successfuly on
> such systems
> change the shebang to say #!/bin/bash as opposed to #!/bin/sh

The script is meant to be posix compliant, so if it isn't, let us know why it isn't. That is the correct fix, not requiring bash.

[Comment 3 Arvind Jayaprakash 2012-12-23 05:21:00 UTC]

My bad due to poor understanding of how runscript works.

The problem turned out to be with init scripts of various applications I have on my system (eg: memcached, mysql, etc. etc). It so happens that the error message shown usually suggests the problem is with runscript.sh as opposed to the init script.

Here is an example of the output http://pastie.org/5567404

I guess the answer is something

[Comment 4 Robin Johnson 2012-12-23 18:05:08 UTC]

And those in init.d/memcached are fixed now.