Bug 519539

Summary: /etc/profile contains non-portable bash specific syntax
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Reporter: Stephen Harris <lists>
Component: setupAssignee: Ondrej Vasik <ovasik>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: BaseOS QE <qe-baseos-auto>
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Description Stephen Harris 2009-08-27 00:27:17 UTC 
Description of problem:

/etc/profile contains the following lines:

for i in /etc/profile.d/*.sh ; do
    if [ -r "$i" ]; then
        if [ "$PS1" ]; then
            . $i
        else
            . $i &>/dev/null
        fi
    fi
done

"&>" is bash specific and may cause issues if a user has a non-bash sh-like shell.  The correct syntax for portability is "> /dev/null 2>&1"

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

setup-2.5.37-3.el4.noarch.rpm (and maybe earlier)
Comment 1 Radek Bíba 2009-08-27 06:30:09 UTC 
Already fixed in setup-2.5.37-4.el4, see RHBA-2009:1197 (Fastrack).

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 508624 ***