sqlci prints no banner or prompt when used in a su session

[Hans Zeller]

When running in a shell that was started by the "su" command, sqlci displays no banner or prompt and appears hung, although it is not. This is caused by a bug in Linux that doesn't set the stdout permissions correctly after the su command, but most other programs don't seem to be affected by this bug.

sudo su - trafodion
sqlci
# shows no prompt

For a more detailed explanation of the Linux bug, see the first answer to this question: http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/38538/bash-dev-stderr-permission-denied

This is listed as a problem in our release notes. The recommended workaround is

sudo su - trafodion
sqlci | cat
# this shows the prompt

Dave George knows how to fix this and has agreed to do the fix, but I don't think he has a LaunchPad user id yet.

[Suresh Subbiah (suresh-subbiah)]

Fix was committed by Dave George a few weeks ago.