4.12-2 Solaris buglet

[Julian Field]

Any comments from anyone else on the portability of "uname -s"?

At 14:53 03/02/2003, you wrote:
>Julian,
>    I upgraded from 4.11-1 to 4.12-2 today, Solaris 8, and got
>complaints from my startup script:
>
>/bin/fgrep: illegal option -- q
>
>I dug around and found that bin/check_mailscanner has a define at
>the top of FGREP=/bin/fgrep.  Then a few lines down, the script
>says:
>
>if $UNAME | $FGREP -q "SunOS" ; then
>
>which causes the complaints.  How about just a test against "uname -s"
>instead?
>
>UNAME=`/bin/uname -s`
>if [ $UNAME = "SunOS" ]; then
>
>My quick fix to the problem was to change the definition of
>FGREP to use /usr/local/bin/fgrep, the GNU version that supports -q.
>
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