Re: libcifpp-data.postrm cron and piuparts (was: Re: Help requested, don't know what to do)

["Maarten L. Hekkelman" <maarten@hekkelman.com>]

    Hi Joost,

Op 02-01-2023 om 11:52 schreef Joost van Baal-Ilić:

> I think best would be to "exit 0" if your package is removed.  E.g. check for
> the existence of some file under /usr of your package, and 'exit 0' with no
> output if the file is not there.
>     
    
    There was a check already to see if we should stop early, without
    any warning or output. Unfortunately, the cron job was run in dash
    (by piu-parts). And dash does not know the variable EUID.
    
    So I ended up rewriting the script to use the following and that
    seems to work:

# Get the effective UID, but do so in a compatible way (we may be running dash)

euid=${EUID:-$(id -u)}

if [ "${euid}" -ne 0 ] ; then

then echo "Please run as root"

exit

fi

    regards and thanks for all the helpful feedback,
    
    -maarten