> I took over administration of a server and one of the users on that system > use gdate in his scripts. I am settinng up a new server and I will have to > migrate everything to this new server. The previous administrator did not > leave any src files for me to recompile gdate on my new server, so I am out > searching for this package. Most GNU software uses autoconf for portability and this is frequently used to allow people building software to rename the program. configure --help: [...] Program names: --program-prefix=PREFIX prepend PREFIX to installed program names --program-suffix=SUFFIX append SUFFIX to installed program names --program-transform-name=PROGRAM run sed PROGRAM on installed program names This might be desired if you were adding GNU software to a commercial OS and did not want to overwrite the original vendor's files. GNU software will commonly be installed with a 'g' prefix. Therefore gdate would really be the date command. [I never use the prefix myself and avoid it. I recommend installing GNU software on commercial OS's in a different directory. My personal choice is /opt/local, keeping /usr/local for truly local customizations.] Most GNU software you can get version and package information from with the --version option. With this you will find that date is part of the sh-utils package. The latest test release is available at: ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/fetish/textutils-2.0.11.tar.gz ftp://freefriends.org/gnu/fetish/textutils-2.0.11.tar.gz Hope that helps Bob _______________________________________________ Bug-sh-utils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-sh-utils
