Re: Making init scripts use dash

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Wouter Verhelst <wouter@debian.org> writes:

> On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 05:45:46AM +0200, David Weinehall wrote:
>> Well, most of those scripts can be fixed quite easily, some require
>> a bit more work.  I hereby promise to help fixing them to the extent
>> of my capability.
>
> Let's see. The nbd-client and nbd-server initscripts use bash arrays. Do
> you have an alternative way to implement their current behaviour, so
> that it would work with dash?
>
> (note that requiring the configuration file format to be changed would
> not be something I would oppose too strongly, if it would make sense)

You can always use eval to construct variable names instead of array
syntax.

MfG
        Goswin