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From: rbj@dsys.icst.nbs.gov (Root Boy Jim)
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Subject: "Lost" /etc/rc* errors
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Date: 11 May 89 08:31:21 GMT
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X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 282, message 12 of 19

ultra!beau@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Beau James):

? Silent failures from the /etc/rc* scripts have been a pet peeve of mine
? for many years....

?     # Note that all "echo" commands are in parentheses.  This is done
?     # because all commands that redirect the output to "/dev/console"
?     # must be done in a child of the main shell, so that the main shell
?     # does not open a terminal and get its process group set...

This looked fishy to me when I saw it too. OK, so `echo' is builtin, but
/bin/echo isn't, so why not just use that?

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