Re: su -c now fatal on Mac? was Re: [Gnumed-devel] GNUmed 0.9.1 Release

[Sebastian Hilbert]

Am Donnerstag, 7. April 2011, 03:23:04 schrieb Jim Busser:
> Previously, despite receiving the warning on Mac
> 
>       MacBook:bootstrap root# sh ./upgrade-db.sh 14 15
>       su: illegal option -- c usage: su [-] [-flm] [login [args]]
> 
> the bootstrapper used to run, see
> 
>       http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnumed-devel/2010-07/msg00088.html
> 
> however trying to run the updater now fails immediately back to the command
> prompt. I cannot find a
> 
>       bootstrap-latest.log
> 
> ... is it possible the failure was so early as to have not yet gotten to
> it? Suggestions?
>

Is 0.9.1 the first version you tried or did it also not work in 0.9.0 (whichI 
assume)

Please post the output of

Here is what it give on Linux

Usage: su [OPTION]... [-] [USER [ARG]...]
Change the effective user id and group id to that of USER.

  -, -l, --login               make the shell a login shell
  -c, --command=COMMAND        pass a single COMMAND to the shell with -c
  -f, --fast                   pass -f to the shell (for csh or tcsh)
  -m, --preserve-environment   do not reset environment variables
  -p                           same as -m
  -s, --shell=SHELL            run SHELL if /etc/shells allows it
      --help     display this help and exit
      --version  output version information and exit

A mere - implies -l.   If USER not given, assume root.


I assume -c option has been removed from the su command in MacOSX

 Given how it is used in GNUmed you might get by by removing the string -c 
from the command.

Sebastian





 
> -- Jim
> 
> On 2011-04-06, at 3:10 AM, Karsten Hilbert wrote:
> > Hello all,
> > 
> > I am glad to be able to announce the immediate availability
> > of the GNUmed 0.9.1 Maintenance Release.
> > 
> > Downloads available from:
> >     http://www.gnumed.de/downloads/client/0.9/
> >     http://www.gnumed.de/downloads/server/v15/
> > 
> > Client installation:
> > 
> > Easily installable packages for your platform of choice
> > will be available shortly.
> > 
> > Meanwhile you can run the client from a downloaded tarball
> > 
> > or use the net based client installer:
> >     http://www.gnumed.de/downloads/client/gm-install_client_locally.sh
> > 
> > which you need to download, make executable, and run.
> > 
> > More information available here:
> >     http://wiki.gnumed.de/bin/view/Gnumed/InstallerGuideHomeShort
> > 
> > Database installation / upgrade:
> > 
> > As usual, no database upgrade is needed for going for this release.
> > 
> > Changelog:
> >     0.9.1
> > 
> > FIX: wxPython-MSW (wx-assertions-on) cannot detach sizer items as
> > documented [thanks S.Hilbert] FIX: adjusted Python interpreter path in
> > check-prerequisites.py [thanks lintian] FIX: exception on calling
> > FreeDiams on Windows if not configured [thanks S.Hilbert]
> > 
> >     15.1
> > 
> > IMPROVED: upgrader now checks whether template database exists [thanks
> > A.Tille] IMPROVED: upgrader now fails when backup before upgrade fails
> > [thanks A.Tille]
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Please download, install, and report problems !
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Karsten
> 
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