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

[Julian Field]

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My best attempt to solve this one is this:

printf 'Starting MailScanner...' 2>/dev/null || echo -n 'Starting 
MailScanner...'

Then you just have to have one or the other.
Or even this?

printf 'Starting MailScanner...' 2>/dev/null || echo -n 'Starting 
MailScanner...' 2>/dev/null || echo 'Starting MailScanner...'

Thoughts?

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.
>
> Alternatives are, in order of preference:
>
> 1. printf 'Starting MailScanner...'
>
> 2. echo 'Starting MailScanner...\c'
>
> The first one is probably portable, the second is what we use in Solaris and
> probably doesn't work anywhere else.
>   

Jules

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