Re: reboot stuff doesn't start
On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 01:23:45PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> I'll sure as hell 2nd that. If anything, rc.local should stack the errors
> and keep on trucking, and when its out of things to do, then spit out
> the errors if any, in the order encountered, to the syslog.
If you want that behavior, remove the -e option. -e forces the shell
to terminate on the first "error", instead of trucking on.
> I assume the -e is a bash option? I just rescanned the man page without
> find a reference other than a test for file -e=exists filename.
>
> It is in the shebang line, so what does that do when its in that
> position.
Yes, it's a bash (or sh) option. It turns on the "errexit" flag, which
means that the shell will terminate under various conditions that are
impossible to summarize cleanly, but all of which involve a command
exiting with a non-zero status.
<https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/105> has some explanations.
The relevant man page section is:
-e Exit immediately if a pipeline (which may consist of a
single simple command), a list, or a compound command
(see SHELL GRAMMAR above), exits with a non-zero status.
The shell does not exit if the command that fails is
part of the command list immediately following a while
or until keyword, part of the test following the if or
elif reserved words, part of any command executed in a
&& or || list except the command following the final &&
or ||, any command in a pipeline but the last, or if the
command's return value is being inverted with !. If a
compound command other than a subshell returns a non-
zero status because a command failed while -e was being
ignored, the shell does not exit. A trap on ERR, if
set, is executed before the shell exits. This option
applies to the shell environment and each subshell envi‐
ronment separately (see COMMAND EXECUTION ENVIRONMENT
above), and may cause subshells to exit before executing
all the commands in the subshell.
If a compound command or shell function executes in a
context where -e is being ignored, none of the commands
executed within the compound command or function body
will be affected by the -e setting, even if -e is set
and a command returns a failure status. If a compound
command or shell function sets -e while executing in a
context where -e is ignored, that setting will not have
any effect until the compound command or the command
containing the function call completes.
[...]
-o option-name
The option-name can be one of the following:
[...]
errexit Same as -e.
The easiest way to find it is to search for "errexit" and then scroll
upward. At least, that's how I did it.
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