Steve, On my squeeze system, talkwith still works, and your test script gives me this: Numeric user-id = 0 Character user-id = root So I wonder what's going on here? Chuck On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 03:23:51PM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: RIPEMD160 > > I noticed something lately, like this morning where the numeric > user-id ($UID) doesn't work inside of scripts anymore. Has anyone > else noticed this? I'm running Debian Squeeze so I have the latest > package of espeak and so on. I first noticed the problem in both > talkwith and speakupconf shell scripts. If I echo $UID from a live > shell, I hear the numeric value as I would expect. my normal account > is 1000 and when I echo it from root I hear 0. But when I execute > this command in a shell script, the $UID field always comes up as an > empty string or null so the fore mentioned shell scripts error out. > > Hear's a sample test script to try this on. > #!/bin/sh > # Test user id values > echo Numeric user-id = $UID > echo Character user-id = $USER > > When I run this script, the second echo command works beautifully but > the first one puts out the string but the value of $UID is apparently > empty because it is omitted. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > > iEYEAREDAAYFAkmrCvcACgkQWSjv55S0LfFqIQCeJaozeNd/Le2sCx+1rt8ySvCp > fbsAn24t0OIPonCOo9lS1GF4EzH+VC+k > =5Xlv > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- The Moon is Waxing Crescent (25% of Full) My web site: www.hallenbeck.ftml.net See also: www.wedit2.ml1.net -------- Please help keep the world clean: others may wish to use it.
