Re: [monit] Problem with monit starting one of my scripts

[Matthew Robinson]

On Thu, 2008-08-14 at 08:23 -0700, Scott Silva wrote:
> on 8-13-2008 5:18 PM Stephen Adams spake the following:
> > Hey Martin,
> > 
> > I had #!/bin/sh at the start of my scripts...
> > 
> > I've changed it to #!/bin/bash and it's now working!! I'm not sure 
> > what's different between my sh and bash shells though.
> > 
> > Thanks for your help
> > 
> I think /bin/sh is usually aliased to bash, but if the environment isn't 
> there, the aliases aren't either.

Some distro's (eg: ubuntu) started shipping dash as the default shell, which isn't completely compatible with bash. The debian based distro's use a symlink from /bin/sh to whatever your shell is configured to be (see update-alternatives).

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Regards,

Matthew Robinson
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