weird shell script problem

[martin f krafft <madduck@madduck.net>]

i am not finding the problem, maybe you will...

here's the script:

  /bin/grep -v "\(^#\|^[  ]*$\)" ~/etc/rc.distconfig | \
    while read account parts; do
      echo "distributing to $account ($parts)"
      ~/bin/distconfig $account
    done

~/etc/rc.distconfig is a file of the following format:

  madduck@auric zsh vim ssh
  madduck@satie zsh reportbug

so the above should call the distconfig script for each line with the
first argument set to the first field.

however, this doesn't work, the while loop runs once, then exits. it
works fine if i put an echo in front of the distconfig file, then all
lines in rc.distconfig are iterated, but if i call the script, then it
just exits after the first iteration. distconfig exits with code 0 all
the time.

any clues?

thanks!

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