Very Computer

Hi,

Ksh is giving the following error messages.  A simple
test script is the following:

( ksh -c "echo hi" >>/tmp/a 2>&1 ) &

On NCR Unix SVR4.0 v3.0: the following messages are written
to /tmp/a:

UX:basename: ERROR: Incorrect usage
UX:basename: TO FIX: Usage: basename [ path [ suffix-pattern ] ]
UX:stty: ERROR: No such device
UX:stty: ERROR: No such device
UX:stty: ERROR: No such device
hi    

On UnixWare SVR4.2 v1.1.4, no error messages
DEC Unix v3.0, No error messages
DEC Unix v3.2c, YES error messages.

Putting trap "" 27 has no effect

stty -tostop is set.

Any Ideas??

Thanks.

--

Curt Smith

: Hi,
:
: Ksh is giving the following error messages.  A simple
: test script is the following:
:
: ( ksh -c "echo hi" >>/tmp/a 2>&1 ) &
:
: On NCR Unix SVR4.0 v3.0: the following messages are written
: to /tmp/a:
:
: UX:basename: ERROR: Incorrect usage
: UX:basename: TO FIX: Usage: basename [ path [ suffix-pattern ] ]
: UX:stty: ERROR: No such device
: UX:stty: ERROR: No such device
: UX:stty: ERROR: No such device
: hi    

I'll answer my own question:

- A fellow net'er emailed the solution to me:

- It's the stuff in my $HOME/.kshrc file that doesn't like
  being run as a detacted process.

- The solution was to do:
  ENV=; export ENV
  In the parent shell script, since I didn't need any of the .kshrc
  stuff for this set of shell scripts.

Silly me, I forgot about shell's reading their .*rc file even if they
are just being used to interprit a script... ;-(

curt