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Charlie Brady wrote:
> 
> 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.

And, it would perhaps be less cluttered to do:

#!/bin/sh

if [ "$1" != "have-env" ]; then
   exec chpst -e ./env "$0" have-env
fi

exec chpst -u "$LOGUSER" svlogd -tt "$LOGDIR"

R.