#!/bin/bash

[Glenn Steen]

    [ The following text is in the "ISO-8859-1" character set. ]
    [ Your display is set for the "US-ASCII" character set.  ]
    [ Some characters may be displayed incorrectly. ]

On 11/01/06, Martin Hepworth <martinh at solid-state-logic.com> wrote:
> <OT>
> Crikey DG/UX that bring back memories...I remember struggling to port code
> this pile of wackiness (login/authentication stuff)

Well, during the few years I managed a couple of semi-big DB servers
running it, it kind of grew on me:-).Wackiest of all was the lisp-like
device filehandles..... sd(npsc((pci(1),0,1)) would be a simple one,
I've actively forgotten the FC ones:-). But although people like
Brandon Allberry has been known to call it "the DG abomination", it
had its high points.... clustering and VDM (kind of like a very nice
LVM with a very nice approach to mirroring) included in the base
package made it nice for HA solutions.... Oh well, it's dead now.

> And SUNOS 4 - still used in production here!

Ah the good ol workhorse that refuse to die?-):-)

> </OT>
>
> --
> Martin Hepworth
> Snr Systems Administrator
> Solid State Logic
> Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
> > Behalf Of Glenn Steen
> > Sent: 11 January 2006 09:42
> > To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> > Subject: Re: [MAILSCANNER] #!/bin/bash
> >
> > On 11/01/06, Nerijus Baliunas <nerijus at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> > > On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 04:10:51 +0000 Julian Field
> > <mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK> wrote:
> > >
> > > > I entirely agree with you. I will have to go through the scripts that
> > > > have this and try to check that they don't have any bash-isms that I
> > > > know of. The only one that springs to mind is
> > > >       export VARIABLE=value
> > > > which I will need to change to
> > > >       VARIABLE=value
> > > >       export VARIABLE
> > > >
> > > > What else should I be looking for? I tend to write for whatever
> > > > version of sh happens to be on the system I'm writing on at the time.
> > > > Bad practice, I know :-(
> >
> > Using features you can test reliably being a bad practise? no:-).
> > Look for variable arithmetics... and almost any substitution can be
> > problematic (usually aren't, but still:).
> > I'm not sure I agree about the portability of bourne shells though...
> > nor korn for that matter. Been bitten in the past by things like "cmd
> > 2>&1 > file" needing to be "cmd > file 2>&1" (more posixly correct,
> > true)... So insisting on bash isn't an entirely stoopid thing, since
> > things like that will be the same across platforms... My problems were
> > mainly in the ancient past (sunos4->aix 2.1-> diab denix, and more
> > recently going from DG/UX R4.20MU06&07 -> AIX 5.2), so might not be
> > that relevant:-):-).
> >
> > > The easiest thing would be to release a new beta version with /bin/sh
> > > everywhere and let the users test it :)
> >
> > Definitely the most effective method:)
> > --
> > -- Glenn
> > email: glenn < dot > steen < at > gmail < dot > com
> > work: glenn < dot > steen < at > ap1 < dot > se
> >


--
-- Glenn
email: glenn < dot > steen < at > gmail < dot > com
work: glenn < dot > steen < at > ap1 < dot > se

------------------------ MailScanner list ------------------------
To unsubscribe, email jiscmail at jiscmail.ac.uk with the words:
'leave mailscanner' in the body of the email.
Before posting, read the Wiki (http://wiki.mailscanner.info/) and
the archives (http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/mailscanner.html).

Support MailScanner development - buy the book off the website!