Minor bug in 4.58.9: check_mail:123 "echo -n" is not portable

[Res]

On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, René Berber wrote:

> As the subject says, the new version has a check_mail with line 123:
>
>  echo -n 'Starting MailScanner...'
>
> the problem is that "echo -n" does not work everywhere, specifically it doesn't
> work in Solaris 9, 8, ... with the stock echo, or the built-in Bourne shell echo.

This works fine on Linux, unfortunately I can't test Solaris

> The first one is probably portable, the second is what we use in Solaris and
> probably doesn't work anywhere else.

:)


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