Package: libc6 Version: 2.2.5-11.8 Severity: Important (Debian stable, with 2.6 kernel)
/etc/init.d/devpts.sh contains the following: ## devpts_avail=`grep -qci '[<[:space:]]devpts' /proc/filesystems || true` devpts_mounted=`grep -qci '/dev/pts' /proc/mounts || true` devfs_mounted=`grep -qci '[<[:space:]]/dev[>[:space:]].*devfs' /proc/mounts || true` if [ $devfs_mounted = 0 ] && [ $devpts_avail != 0 ] then ## However, surely this is wrong, as `` backticks are used for recording the stdout of the command, not the return value. because grep -q || true doesn't print anything, this variable is assigned an empty string. bash then complains with "[: =: unary operator expected" because it tries to do if [ = 0 ] which is a syntax error. The end result is my devpts isn't mounted and I can't run programs that want a pts like screen. Furthermore, adding || true to each of those tests seems to make the tests redundant, since ` anything || true ` will return 0 (true). I think you probably want something like grep -qci '[<[:space:]]devpts' /proc/filesystems devpts_avail=$? (etc) John McPherson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
