Simple bash problem.

inode0 inode0 at gmail.com
Mon Jan 29 00:47:27 UTC 2007


On 1/28/07, inode0 <inode0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/28/07, inode0 <inode0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 1/28/07, Simon Ashford <Simon.Ashford at npl.co.uk> wrote:
> > >
> > > Thanks for the quick reply.
> > >
> > > Unfortunately it made no difference putting #!/bin/bash...
> > >
> > > This works on every other system I've tried.
> >
> > I just tested on RHEL3 and RHEL4 here. Worked as I guess you would
> > expect on RHEL4 but on RHEL3 the SIGQUIT was ignored. Looking in the
> > manpage I'm not sure I understand why it isn't being ignored in
> > RHEL4?!
>
> Adding a "trap -p" to the script shows that none of the signals are
> being trapped on RHEL3 by this script. Curious.

 trap "sigtrap " 1 2 3 15

seems to get it to work on RHEL3 but this seems pretty buggy to me.

John




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