From f27b9adb57c38b296add2f5ee8bfed47cfdd013a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 15:28:56 +0200
Subject: functions: check type of stdout/stderr instead of stdin

---
 rc.d/init.d/functions | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'rc.d/init.d')

diff --git a/rc.d/init.d/functions b/rc.d/init.d/functions
index 15fc6415..3ce93ecf 100644
--- a/rc.d/init.d/functions
+++ b/rc.d/init.d/functions
@@ -16,7 +16,9 @@ export PATH
 # Get a sane screen width
 [ -z "${COLUMNS:-}" ] && COLUMNS=80
 
-[ -z "${CONSOLETYPE:-}" ] && CONSOLETYPE="$(/sbin/consoletype)"
+# /sbin/consoletype checks the type of stdin. Since we are mostly
+# interested in output, we use redirection to check stdout/stderr instead.
+[ -z "${CONSOLETYPE:-}" ] && CONSOLETYPE="$(/sbin/consoletype < /dev/stderr)"
 
 if [ -z "${NOLOCALE:-}" ] && [ -z "${LANGSH_SOURCED:-}" ] && [ -f /etc/sysconfig/i18n ] ; then
   . /etc/profile.d/lang.sh 2>/dev/null
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