[CentOS] DISAATER RECOVERY PROBLEM

[Matt Hyclak]

On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 01:55:00PM +0200, Chris Geldenhuis enlightened us:
> I am trying to set up a quick disaster recovery methodology for a 
> client. It is supposed to work as follows:-
> 
> All Data files , everything in /etc (except for a few hardware specific 
> files such as fstab), all users .bashrc and .netrc files, all cron 
> tables etc. is written to a DVD as a zipped tar file. A recovery script 
> that unpacks this file, creates any directories required by the 
> application that are not backed up etc. is also written to the DVD.
> 
> The DVD is then mounted on a freshly installed system (Centos4.4 at 
> present) and the restore script is run. This restors all the saved files 
> on the DVD to their original positions and creates empty directories 
> where required for the application to run.
> 
> The recovery system is then rebooted and the differences in hardware are 
> taken care of by "kudzu" removing hw that was present on the "old" 
> system and installing hardware present on the "new" system - typically 
> network cards, usb controllers, scsi controllers, IDE controllers and 
> graphics cards.
> 
> All of the above works perfectly.
> 
> However when I then log in to the recovered system as a user via ssh, or 
> directly on a tty (non-gui), the login process does not execute the 
> instructions in the user's .bashrc file and I get a shell prompt with 
> none of the required environmental variables set - also the last line in 
> the .bashrc is an exec of a script that bring up the application - this 
> does not happen.
> 
> When I log in to the gui desktop as the user and then open a terminal 
> screen the instructions in the .bashrc do get executed
> and the application runs as it should.
> 
> Any ideas of where to look ?
> 

The bash man page, especially the section titled INVOCATION

Matt

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Matt Hyclak
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Department of Social Work
Ohio University
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