Hi,

On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 02:12:31AM +0100, Hubert Feyrer wrote:

> trying to do some filtering with /var/log/messages, I've found that
> /etc/daily breaks if /etc/daily.local changes the current working 
> directory. Paraphrasing /etc/daily:
> 
> line1:		cd $somedir
> line2:		TMP=relative_path
> line3:		. /etc/daily.local >$TMP
> line4:		if [ -s $TMP ]; then ...
> 
> In the above example, line3 creates creates $somedir/relative_path,
> but if daily.local uses 'cd' to change the current working directory, the 
> if-test in line4 will fail.
> 
> To solve this, I suggest running daily.local in a subshell:
> 
> 	( . /etc/daily.local ) >$TMP 2>&1
> 
> Does that make sense? Do I miss something substantial here?
> Any comments about (not) committing the patch below?

What happens to non-exported variables in ( ) - sub-shells? Do we have
any in /etc/daily{,.conf} that a daily.local would want to use?

Regards,
	-is