Bug 8914

Summary: rc.sysinit complains on ] error
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Daniel Stenberg <daniel.stenberg>
Component: initscriptsAssignee: Bill Nottingham <notting>
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Version: 6.1CC: rvokal
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Description Daniel Stenberg 2000-01-27 08:32:08 UTC 
The following piece of the /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit script does not work
satisfactory when the directories in question are empty:

# Clean up /var
# I'd use find, but /usr may not be mounted.
for afile in /var/lock/* /var/run/*; do
   if [ -d $afile ]; then
      rm -f $afile/*
   else
      rm -f $afile
   fi
done

The if-condition should instead be written

   if [ -d "$afile" ]; then

The warning that is displayed is perfectly harmless but still annoying
since the user can't really know that it is this harmless...! ;-)
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Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2000-01-27 23:33:59 UTC 
Will be fixed in initscripts-4.85 when it's released.