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

[Res]

Jules,

bin/check_mailscanner Line 117

echo -n
to avoid the issue with Solaris can you please replace the
echo -n   _with_   printf on line 117

Cheers



On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Res wrote:

> On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Res wrote:
>
>>> 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
>
> looks around.....
>
> SunOS5.9
> The echo utility writes its arguments, separated  by  BLANKs
>     and  terminated  by  a  NEWLINE,  to the standard output. If
>     there are no arguments, only the NEWLINE character  will  be
>     written.
>
> We use the -n to avoid the newline output so we can have the result on the 
> same line, so if solaris we'd need use \c  to avoid it it seems.
> \c    Print line without new-line. All characters fol-
>                 lowing the \c in the argument are ignored.
>
>
>

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Cheers
Res

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