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From: ahh@moji.uucp (Andy Heffernan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga
Subject: Re: uucp cleanup script
Message-ID: <120@moji.uucp>
Date: 3 Jun 91 23:04:40 GMT
References: <104374@becker.UUCP>
Reply-To: ahh@moji.uucp (Andy Heffernan)
Organization: Moji Computing
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In article <104374@becker.UUCP> bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce D. Becker) writes:
->
->in Amiga Unix System V Release 4, version 1.1, there
->is a misfeature in the "uudemon.cleanup" script:
->
->	SPOOL=/var/spool/uucp
->	[...]
->	cd $SPOOL
->	if [ "`pwd`" != "$SPOOL" ]; then
->		... mail error message to admin ...
->
->This has been in the script for perhaps 5-6 years.
->
->It breaks under SysVr4 because "/var/spool" is a
->symbolic link to "/usr/spool"; when the cd is done,
->the working directory is now "/usr/spool/uucp" (at
->least according to /bin/sh - ksh should succeed).
[...]

This can be fixed by running the script with ksh instead of sh.
(I think you knew that.)  Change to top line from #!/bin/sh to #!/usr/bin/ksh.
No more bogus "Unable to chdir..." messages in uucp's mailbox.

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