Re: bash error after ksh installation

"Brian D. McGrew" <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> · Thu, 16 Sep 2004 10:30:55 -0700

Well, you're off into the major complexities of the login environment 
now.  Now if take a login like mine which has about 100 files in it, 
all sorts of functions and macros and then throw on top of that the 
fact that I login with csh as my default shell and then my .csh.once 
file starts bash, it should be anywhere.

I'd start by first removing ARCserve and switching to Veritas it'll 
save you a lot of headaches in the future (I know, probably not 
feasible).

Secondly, I'd go though all your startup files (.bash_alias, 
.bash_profile, .bash_login, etc.) and adding echo statements for create 
yourself a debug() shell function that you can call as your login is 
parsed.  Most likely the error is coming from an 'if [ whatever];' 
statement that's not being properly evaluated now.

HTH,

-brian

Brian D. McGrew		{ brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx || 
pacemakertaker@xxxxxxxxx }

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On Sep 16, 2004, at 10:23 AM, <cnorton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Thursday, September 16, 2004

We needed to install ksh on our RedHat 9 system.  A backup product, 
ArcServe

requires it.  After this installation, our logins receive this 
message, and

I'd like to correct the problem:

Last login: Thu Sep 16 13:18:15 from 10.100.6.12
-bash: [: too many arguments
-bash: [: too many arguments

I'm not sure what to correct, and any pointers would be helpful.
tnx
cmn

Charles M. Norton
Manager of Software Development
Town of Arlington, MA
Data Processing Department
869 Massachusetts Avenue
Arlington, MA 02476

cnorton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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