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[bugs #10533] Change from "whoami" to "id -u" breaks "updatedb" on Solar
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[bugs #10533] Change from "whoami" to "id -u" breaks "updatedb" on Solaris |
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Thu, 30 Sep 2004 00:06:40 -0400 |
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[bugs #10533] Full Item Snapshot:
URL: <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=10533>
Project: findutils
Submitted by: 0
On: Wed 09/29/2004 at 23:58
Category: updatedb
Severity: 5 - Average
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Resolution: None
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Status: Open
Release: None
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Summary: Change from "whoami" to "id -u" breaks "updatedb" on Solaris
Original Submission: I see that "updatedb" was changed from using "whoami" to
"id -u" 3 years ago:
2001-06-05 Kevin Dalley <address@hidden>
* locate/updatedb.sh: replace "whoami" with "id -u" when testing
for root.
The Solaris "/usr/bin/id" program does not support "-u", so this breaks (out of
the box) on Solaris.
The XPG4 version of "id" in "/usr/xpg4/bin/id" *does* support "-u", so a
possible fix might be to pre-pend "/usr/xpg4/bin" to the $PATH setting in
"updatedb.sh" (a harmless no-op on other OS', I suspect), but then that means
that other programs in the script would be called from "/usr/xpg4/bin" instead
of the expected places - "rm", "mv", "sed", "sort", "tr" and "awk", to be
specific - with possibly unexpected/unwanted results.
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