[techtalk] Partial execution of /etc/rc.d/rc.M

[Malcolm Tredinnick]

On Sun, Jan 16, 2000 at 05:20:05PM -0500, Beverly Guillermo wrote:
> I have the same spaces in my slack setup as well, and it doesn't cause a
> problem.
> 
> Beverly
> 
> On Sun, 16 Jan 2000 moebius at ip-solutions.net wrote:
> 
> > Well Subba,
> >    If it is the same here as on your machine the most obvious problem is
> > the space between the period and forwardslash ". /etc" as opposed to
> > "./etc"
> > HTH,
> > Harry Hoffman
> > Product Systems Specialist
> > Restaurants Unlimited Inc.
> > Seattle WA
> > 206 634-3082 ext. 270
> > 
> > On Sat, 15 Jan 2000, Subba Rao wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > ========================================
> > > # Start Qmail
> > > if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.qmail ]; then
> > >   . /etc/rc.d/rc.qmail start
> > > fi
[...etc ... the rest snipped...]

The space is important here! It is an abbreviation of the shell command
'source' which causes the file to be executed as a shell script without
starting a subshell (so any environment variables that are set, stay set upon
exiting the script).

I don't have any suggestions about the original problem (I thought the missing
'start' keywords were significant, but another response seems to suggest this
is not the case). Sorry.

Cheers,
Malcolm Tredinnick

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