[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#587665: wrong PATH in urandom, find is in /usr/bin

[Michael Biebl]

On 01.07.2010 01:40, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Michael Biebl]
>> Agreed, if it can be changed to work without find (or anything from
>> /usr/), this is of course the better solution.
> 
> This is the problematic line:
> 
>   SAVEDSIZE="$(find "$SAVEDFILE" -printf "%s")"
> 
> 
> The find line prints the size of the file in bytes.
> 
> Not quite sure what the best option is, but this line seem to work
> too, using ls and cut from /bin/.
> 
>   SAVEDSIZE="$(ls -s --block-size=1 "$SAVEDFILE" | cut -d' ' -f1)"
> 
> Anyone got a better idea?

TBH, I'm not actually sure what all the code in /etc/init.d/urandom is supposed
to do and why SAVEDSIZE is necessary at all.

that said, given your code above, I get differing results for this simple example:

$ echo foo > /tmp/bar
$ find /tmp/bar -printf %s
4
$ ls -s --block-size=1 /tmp/bar | cut -d' ' -f1
4096


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