"BuraphaLinux Server" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > su -p nobody -s /sbin/bash << EOF > export HOME=/tmp > # turn off error crashing and turn on tracing > set +e -x > # begin the non-root stuff here > cd /tmp/mindy > shazbot is not a valid command > if ((${?}!=0)) # <--- ${?} is zero here not 127 ?????
The variable is already substituted while the here-document is read. Either quote the dollar sign, or use a quoted here-document. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." _______________________________________________ Bug-bash mailing list Bug-bash@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-bash