su and init scripts
When using su to change the user you do not get that user's login shell,
but the one listed in the environment variable SHELL. I have no idea why
this is done, but I don't think it's very intuitive. Anyway, there's a
problem with this behaviour when a shell does not behave as sh would.
For instance I have set up my system to use sash as root's shell (and if
you ever managed to destroy ld.so or libc you know why) and sash does
not know the '-c' option. So what happens is that /etc/init./postgresql
stops with a shell prompt during boot resp. shutdown procedure because
it tries to execute a command with 'su postgres -c ...'.
What shall we do? First of all I'd like to have the time to patch sash
to be able to handle at least '-c', but I'm afraid I'm lacking time
right now. If the su behaviour is correct I think every package should
make sure SHELL is set to an acceptable value before calling su.
Comments anyone?
Michael
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