[Nut-upsuser] UPS/NUT with openSUSE 13.1

[Rob Groner]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charles Lepple [mailto:clepple at gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2015 10:33 PM
> To: Tim Dawson <tadawson at tpcsvc.com>
> Cc: Rob Groner <rgroner at RTD.com>; nut-upsuser Mailing List <nut-
> upsuser at lists.alioth.debian.org>
> Subject: Re: [Nut-upsuser] UPS/NUT with openSUSE 13.1
> 
> On Sep 24, 2015, at 12:20 PM, Tim Dawson <tadawson at tpcsvc.com> wrote:
> >
> > The "#! <shell>" is a *nix thing that exists in every *nix I have ever seen, for
> as long as I know (mid 1980's for me . . ) and is used to specify what shell is to
> be loaded to run that script
> 
> More specifically, this dates back to when the first two bytes of an a.out-
> format executable file were the "magic" values used to determine how to
> load it. The ASCII code for "#!" does not match any of those magic values,
> and has the added benefit of being the start of a shell comment line.
> 

Ya, that's the part that I hate the most, and why up until now I considered it dispensible....it's a COMMENT.  Nowhere in software engineering should a comment actually affect the running of the program!  

That rant aside, I'm still not sure why this DOES affect the running.  I'm not trying any fancy shell scripting tricks.  I'm simply calling upsdrvctl.  It's a single line in the file, and I can't imagine that bash or csh or any other scripting calls it differently.  But *shrug*  that's just my ignorance talking.

Either way, SOMETHING is different now besides that because I wasn't able to get the systemd service unit to work before, and that has nothing to do with bash/shells.  I'm going to try again today from scratch and make sure I've got it working.