[ZOOKEEPER-1737] zk scripts no longer work when symlinked

• Type: Bug
• Status: Patch Available
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 3.4.5
• Component/s: scripts

Environment

RHEL6.4

• Assignee: Chris Seawood
• Reporter: Chris Seawood
• Created: 05/Aug/13 19:12
• Updated: 01/Oct/13 00:14

Description

At some point since 3.3, the shell scripts were updated to move away from using readlink to using BASH_SOURCE. The problem is that BASH_SOURCE doesn't resolve symlinks so when /usr/bin/zookeeper-cli is symlinked to /usr/lib/zookeeper/bin/zkCli.sh it fails every single time.