Re: [supervise] <defunct>

Sebastian Rahlf wrote:

> I ommited a part at the beginning as it contains a quite lengthy comment
> - among which the a '#!/bin/sh' was hidden. However, there was also a
> comment line preceeding it which did not strike me as odd. Having
> removed that line, daemontools now seems to run just fine.

Well, as you've discovered, the #! is important.  It *must* be the
first two characters in the script as the kernel uses that as a
magic 16 bit constant (in this case, for invoking the following
interpreter and passing the file as a parameter).  Some shell
interpreters (bash springs to mind) don't necessarily try to exec
the script (or if they do, they fail silently) and just interpret
the contents instead.


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  Daryl Tester

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