Minor bug in 4.58.9: check_mail:123 "echo -n" is not portable
Tom G. Christensen
tgc at statsbiblioteket.dk
Wed Feb 7 08:43:14 CET 2007
René Berber wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 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.
>
/usr/ucb/echo will do this on Solaris.
$ /usr/bin/echo -n
-n
$ /usr/ucb/echo -n
$
-tgc
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