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Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 11:17:13 +0100
To: Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org>
From: Richard Brooksby <rb@ravenbrook.com>
Subject: Re: Something funny about ampersand in /bin/sh
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At 2000-04-03 08:57 +0200, Martin Cracauer wrote:

>Richard,
>
>you you please verify whether my assumption below is correct or not?
>Did you really use /bin/sh as shipped?

Thanks for your help.  The problem was solved by Steve Price.  See below.

At 2000-03-31 18:38 +0100, Richard Brooksby wrote:

>At 2000-03-31 11:07 -0600, Steve Price wrote:
>
>>#    su -fm root -c 'echo 2>&1 foo'
>>
>>Looks like this one is invoking csh(1) and not sh(1).
>
>Doh!
>
>Yes, indeed, root is set to run /bin/csh by default on new 
>installations.  I've fixed it to /bin/sh.
>
>Thanks for your help.


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