On Jan 11, 2009, at 9:07 PM, Dan Nelson wrote:

UID=$(id -u)
if [ $UID -ne 0 ] ; then
echo not root
fi

UID is not a variable set by /bin/sh, which is why the test fails.

Ah. Thank you. I was, as you see, barking up the wrong tree. Thank you for setting me strait on this.

Cheers,

-j

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