I've just installed Slack 12, which now contains /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions, to be a little more compatible with scripts written for RH. However, the daemon function isn't working. The strange thing is, I can use exactly the same command in RH, and it does work.

I patched around both version, so that exactly the same command was issued in each environment, taken from a trace, from a script run by root:

+ su -s /bin/bash - eddie -c '/home/eddie/runfunc.sh /boot'

In RH, this works. But in Slack, it starts another bash shell, and I have to reply "exit" to get the script to continue, and it doesn't issue the command.

The shell used in both environments, for root, and eddie is the same, so I'm at a loss as to why one works, and the other doesn't.

Any ideas.

Cheers,
Eddie

Different distributions set different levels of security on the use of su. You can change how su security works in /etc/pam.d/su.

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Steve Stites

I don't think it's security related, as the script is running as root.

If I try running the same commands directly from the command line, I get the same results. In RH, the "runfunc.sh" script runs. In Slack, I get another shell prompt.

If I remove the "-s /bin/bash", then I get an error "No Shell", because the user I'm trying to run this process under has /sbin/nologon as their shell.

Cheers.