On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 07:32:32 -0800, Justin Erenkrantz
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> > what about:
> >
> > temp_create_method=file
> > if which cut >/dev/null 2>/dev/null; then
> >    (logic to use which goes where)
> > fi
> 
> Did you mean:
> 
> temp_create_method=file
> if which mktemp >/dev/null 2>/dev/null; then
>   temp_create_method=mktemp
> elif which tempfile >/dev/null 2>/dev/null; then
>   temp_create_method=tempfile
> fi

I didn't mean that, but that looks better ;)
(what I meant was to use "which cut" to see if "which" works; the rest
of the script already assumes that cut exists)

I'm not sure if throwing away all the output satisfies Joe's concern;
running login scripts seems like it could have side-effects other than
output

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