bash shell for-loop

[Niklas Saers Mailinglistaccount]

Hi,

On Sat, 17 May 2003, [ISO-8859-1] Raphaël Marmier wrote:
> Looks like it stop to ask fo the password...

not really, I type "fg" and it continues, then stopping again before
redoing the loop

Cheers

  Nik

>
> Raphael
>
> Le samedi, 17 mai 2003, à 16:55 Europe/Zurich, Niklas Saers
> Mailinglistaccount a écrit :
>
> > Hi,
> > I've created a small bash script that stops, and I cannot understand
> > why
> > it stops. It is:
> >
> > #!/usr/local/bin/bash
> > for username in $(ls /home); do
> >   su -m $username /home/$username/startup.sh;
> > done
> >
> > When I type this at the bash prompt, it goes well. However, when I call
> > this script it executes the first su and then gives me:
> >
> > [4]+  Stopped                 bash /tmp/sh.sh
> >
> > Why does it stop? I've nowhere asked it to stop. I certainly don't
> > want it
> > to stop.
> >
> > To explain my command, I start a set of daemons for each user
> > specified in
> > ~/startup.sh and no user has a valid shell as I do not wish to allow
> > them
> > any kind of login access. Thus I have to include the "-m"
> >
> > What makes a bash script stop? How can I set it to ignore whatever is
> > requesting it (errorlevels?) to stop?
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> >   Nik
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