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Hello, everyone!

I'm trying to write a small script to be executed after OpenVZ
container creation. Everything goes fine until I need a user input.
Here is the code:


When I run this script manually ( ./script.sh ), the input is
performed normally, the variable is set and everything is OK. But when
the script is run by a program ("vzctl" in my case), I'm getting
errors like these in the terminal:

And the "while" loop continues, producing these messages until I kill
the script. So, where is the pitfall? Is this because the script isn't
run directly from the terminal (by vzctl program) or because all this
is done by SSH? May be, I should use any other input method in this
case?

Version info:

If any additional info is required, let me know.

Thank you.

I think, I've solved the problem. I'm writing this post hoping it will be indexed by search engines and the next, who will meet this problem, will find the solution.

The source of the error was in what was the script's stdin. Executing ls -l /dev/$$/fd from the script showed:


So, here is the solution! The developer of vzctl (which runs the script) has set stdin to /dev/null. But, fortunately, he left stdout and stderr untouched. This is why, the only thing to fix my problem was to add

right before the read statement in the script.
After I added this line, the script began working well.