Otto Moerbeek wrote: > On Wed, 8 Mar 2006, Chris 'Xenon' Hanson wrote: > >> Otto Moerbeek wrote: >>> On Wed, 8 Mar 2006, Chris 'Xenon' Hanson wrote: >>>> Thanks everyone! >>> Leaves me wondering why you cannot use ksh to run the script. Are you >>> running into a ksh bug or a bash specific feature? >> I honestly don't know, I didn't write the script, Sangoma did. It calls for >> bash, and I assume they know why. > > Well, just try it or show us the script... It happens as lot people > just put #!/bin/bash in their script because they copy from badly > written scripts. > > -Otto > >
I always write my scripts using only sh features. So my script can run virtually in any unix, making none or little adjusts. But if you MUST use bash, i recommend installing the statically linked one, because you not only solve the libraries problems, but is more secure. My 2 cents, -- Giancarlo Razzolini Linux User 172199 Moleque Sem Conteudo Numero #002 Slackware Current OpenBSD Stable Snike Tecnologia em Informatica 4386 2A6F FFD4 4D5F 5842 6EA0 7ABE BBAB 9C0E 6B85 [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc]