I was testing DCTM 22.4 when I decided to shutdown the repository and oh, surprise!

dmadmin@aldago-desktop:~$ dm_shutdown_dctm224
Stopping Documentum server for repository: [dctm224]

Picked up JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS: -Djava.locale.providers=COMPAT,SPI
Picked up JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS: -Djava.locale.providers=COMPAT,SPI
/opt/documentum/dba/dm_shutdown_dctm224: 65: shopt: not found
/opt/documentum/dba/dm_shutdown_dctm224: 67: [[: not found
Picked up JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS: -Djava.locale.providers=COMPAT,SPI

“shopt: not found”? “[[: not found”? What the… let’s check the dm_shutdown_dctm224 script:

#!/bin/sh
################## DOCUMENTUM SERVER SHUTDOWN FILE ######################

WHAT.THE.XXXX? You’re using shopt and [[ and you choose sh as shell which DOES NOT support it? With the amount of available shells that exist you have to pick the one that doesn’t support this? Well, another “bug” for the long history of “issues” on Linux systems… (by the way, on the new workflow designer, finally someone has decided to put Linux paths in the Linux distribution log files instead of “C:\…”, however someone also forgot the initial / before the path… maybe on next version)