Hello Gerrit,

Am 2006-11-20 15:51:40, schrieb Gerrit Pape:
> > but since I have tried to make some scripts POSIX compatibel I
> > was running into trouble.  Under "bash" I run "enable -s" to get
> > all POSIX compatible commands, which include "source".
> 
> That's wrong.  A builtin or utility named 'source' isn't defined in
> POSIX.

OK, since the manpage say "enable -s" outputs ONLY POSIX commands,
and it show "source" should I write a bugreport against bash?

> > Installing a Sarge machine from scratch. let ALL of my scripts
> > fail, since the default in Sarge is "/bin/sh -> /bin/dash".
> 
> Not that I know of.  The dash package by default doesn't provide a
> symlink /bin/sh -> dash, only on user request through debconf.

The symlink was on ALL new installed Sarge r0 machines.
And I cen reproduce this, even if I use "expert24"

> Which is correct.  '.' is to be used to source files.

Thanks for the info, I will change all of my scripts to use "."

Thanks, Greetings and nice Day
    Michelle Konzack
    Systemadministrator
    Tamay Dogan Network
    Debian GNU/Linux Consultant


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