[Anthill] Bourne shell problem

Eric Minick eric at urbancode.com
Wed Feb 9 05:49:36 CST 2005


Thanks Phil!

Phil Mocek wrote:

>On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 11:55:26PM -0500, Eric Minick wrote:
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>>Anthill [is] just running the commands as the user in question.
>>You would either want to configure the Websphere user to use the
>>Bourne shell 
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>Make that ``to use Bash''.  The OP said Bourne Shell wasn't
>working for him but bash and Korn were.
>
>On many Unix-like systems, changing a user's login shell is
>performed using the usermod command, like this:
>
>    usermod -s /bin/bash username
>
>which would change user ``username'' so that his login shell is
>/bin/bash.
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>>or include the path to your bourne shell as the first line of your 
>>edit.sh.
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>To clarify, most shell scripts start out with a line that looks
>like one of these:
>
>    #!/bin/sh
>    #!/bin/bash
>    #!/bin/csh
>    #!/bin/ksh
>    #!/bin/zsh
>
>Whatever comes after the ``shebang'' (the hash mark and
>exclamation point) indicates what command should be used to
>interpret the script.  If your script uses features that are
>specific to bash, then it really should begin with
>``#!/bin/bash''.
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