Re: Run Command 2.10 to 4.10

Steve Weet (stevew@chineham.euro.csg.mot.com) wrote: : Informix 4GL 2.10.03K to Informix 4GL 4.10.UD2 with 5.00.UD1 SE. [...] : There seem to be some differences in the way the RUN command works. [...] : In 2.10 RUN seems to exec /bin/sh -c runcommand whereas V4 seems to : exec pw_shell -c runcommand where pw_shell is the users shell entry : from the password file. : Many of our users do not have shell access and their passwd shell entry : is set to a Shell script [...] therefore our run commands no longer work. I believe 4GL works off the SHELL environment variable at runtime which is set by default to the user's /etc/passwd entry. It would be the cause of your problems if your users have a nonstandard initial shell. We ourselves reset the SHELL var in the embedded RUN commands in our code to prevent users from escaping to the shell, or to force a C-shell onto a Bourne shell user, or whatever. You can either write a setenv-like external function to be called from inside your 4GL code or, more simply, set SHELL before you execute your 4GL program. Van