RE: Simple bash problem.

Anyone know why the following simple bash script fails
on RHEL3 (fully patched)? It seems the "trap" command
is being silently ignored.


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#!/bin/sh

sigtrap () {
echo "Caught signal!"
exit 0
}

trap sigtrap 1 2 3 15

while read X; do
echo $X
done
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I'm not 100% sure, but I think it might be because of the #! Line. Bash
might be seeing that you've invoked with "/bin/sh", and is deciding to
operate in limited POSIX shell mode (sorry, the exact terminology for
that escapes me). Try #!/bin/bash and see how that goes,

Craig
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