[pmfirewall] Re: minor install bug on Debian systems

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From: Rick Johnson (rick@pointman.org)
Date: Tue May 23 2000 - 00:34:18 PDT

Typical Debian.

NOTE: The above message was not meant to start a distro war. It's sole
purpose was to anger certain people on the list. You know who you are. :)

Thnaks for pointing it out as well as the patch!

Rick

On Sun, 21 May 2000, Gregory T. Norris wrote:

> I've run into a minor bug during the installation of PMFirewall 1.1.4
> onto a Debian 2.2 (potato) system... a patch is attached for your
> consideration.
>
> The basic issue is that Debian systems don't guarantee /bin/sh to be a
> link to bash, although that *is* the default. The official policy is
> that any POSIX compatible shell is acceptable, with ash and pdksh (I
> believe) considered to fulfill that requirement. The actual problem is
> that the installer uses the $UID variable, which is bash-specific, to
> verify root privileges. The aforementioned patch just assigns the
> appropriate value if the variable doesn't already exist.
>
> Thanx!
>

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