Problems with csh

[Mark Waterhouse]

Hi Carl

Can you confirm which OS you tried this on (cat /etc/redhat-release or 
equivalent)?
Could you also let me know which csh you are using (rpm -qf /bin/csh).

Thanks
Mark

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Carl Boberg" <Carl.Boberg at nrm.se>
To: <redhat-sysadmin-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 2:09 PM
Subject: RE: Problems with csh


> Er,
>
> When run with -e I get no output and when I echo $status I get null
> [root at mail ~]# csh -e test
> [root at mail ~]# echo $status
>
> [root at mail ~]#
>
> Without -e
> [root at mail ~]# csh test
> 0
> DFK
> 0
> [root at mail ~]#
>
> Hmm...
>
> / C
>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I get result 0 on my RH9/FC4/RHEL3/RHEL4 boxes ...
>> So I guess it could be local to your install.
>>
>> / Carl
>>
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: redhat-sysadmin-list-bounces at redhat.com
>> > [mailto:redhat-sysadmin-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Mark
>> > Waterhouse
>> > Sent: den 26 juli 2006 13:22
>> > To: redhat-sysadmin-list at redhat.com
>> > Subject: Re: Problems with csh
>> >
>> > Has anyone got any thoughts on this problem?
>> >
>> > ----- Original Message -----
>> > From: "Mark Waterhouse" <mark at dfk-systems.com>
>> > To: <redhat-sysadmin-list at redhat.com>
>> > Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 5:09 PM
>> > Subject: Problems with csh
>> >
>> >
>> > > Hi all
>> > >
>> > > A user on our campus has discovered a small bug within csh
>> > that I would
>> > > like to share with the community; predominately to confirm
>> > if this is a
>> > > bug and, if it, to see what you all think.
>> > >
>> > > My user is trying to capture the exit status of csh when
>> > running against a
>> > > certain internal script.
>> > > For the sake of completeness, I've created a very small
>> > script which does
>> > > nothing but echo a string.
>> > >
>> > > The script, called 'test', looks like this;
>> > > [sysadmin at ns02 ~]$ cat test
>> > > echo $status
>> > > echo DFK
>> > > echo $status
>> > >
>> > > On each machine that I tested this on (Centos/FC3/FC1), I
>> > get an output of
>> > > "1".
>> > > On the FreeBSD, Solaris and SuSE boxes, I get the correct output.
>> > >
>> > > Do you think this is a bug?
>> > > fwiw, I noticed that on the Centos/FCx/RHEL boxes, /bin/csh
>> > is symlinked
>> > > to /bin/tcsh. Ah....except that the same is true for SuSE.
>> > >
>> > > Any ideas greatly appreciated.
>> > >
>> > > Thanks
>> > > Mark
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > Centos 3.6
>> > > [sysadmin at ns02 sysadmin]$ csh
>> > > [sysadmin at ns02 ~]$ csh -e test
>> > > [sysadmin at ns02 ~]$ echo $status
>> > > 1
>> > >
>> > > Fedora Core 3
>> > > [root at webhost ~]$ csh
>> > > [root at webhost ~]$ csh -e test
>> > > [root at webhost ~]$ echo $status
>> > > 1
>> > >
>> > > Fedora Core 1
>> > > [mark at secure mark]$ csh
>> > > [mark at secure ~]# csh -e test
>> > > [mark at secure ~]# echo $status
>> > > 1
>> > >
>> > > FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE
>> > >> csh
>> > > %csh -e test
>> > > 0
>> > > DFK
>> > > 0
>> > > %echo $status
>> > > 0
>> > >
>> > > Solaris 2.6 (5.6)
>> > > # csh
>> > > noo-noo# csh -e test
>> > > 0
>> > > DFK
>> > > 0
>> > > noo-noo# echo $status
>> > > 0
>> > >
>> > > SuSE Enterprise Server 9 (x86_64)
>> > > octopus % 24 : csh
>> > > octopus % 21 : csh -e test
>> > > 0
>> > > DFK
>> > > 0
>> > > octopus % 22 : echo $status
>> > > 0
>> >
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