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On Mon, 14 Apr 2008, Robin Bowes wrote:

>>  There is also another way, if you don't like the sh -c part:
>>
>>  #!/bin/sh
>>  if [ "$1" = "have-env" ]; then
>>  	exec chpst -u "$LOGUSER" svlogd -tt "$LOGDIR" \
>>  else
>>  	exec chpst -e ./env "$0" have-env
>>  fi
>
> Isn't that effectively doing the same thing, but without implicitly invoking 
> "sh -c" ?

s/implicitly/explicitly/

Yes, that was my thought too. You run /bin/sh twice either way.