Re: How to use logrotate postrotate *bash* script

[Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@alice-dsl.net>]

On Thu, 2013-12-05 at 10:43 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-12-05 at 10:31 +0100, Steffen Dettmer wrote:
> > logrotate seems to execute "postrotate" scripts using /bin/sh and I
> > found no way where to specify which script interpreter to use.
> > Starting with a she-bang line seem to have no effect. Even if I
> > manually run logrotate as root who has /bin/bash as login shell,
> > /bin/sh is used.
> > 
> > How to make logrotate to use the correct interpreter for "postrotate" scripts?
> 
> The Magic line is used, if you run it directly
> 
> myscript
> 
> using
> 
> sh myscript
> dash myscript
> bash myscript
> 
> will use the named bash. sh usually is a link to bash or dash. Sometimes
                    ^^^^^ shell ;), bash, dash or whatever you type for
myscript
> it's smart to write scripts that run with dash and bash.
> 
> Regards,
> Ralf
>