shell echo do not print special letters

2006-02-24 Thread sigbj-st
Possible bug? SuSE 10.0 on a laptop Asus W5A kernel 2.6 Running SCRIPTS as bash do not give off special letters for Norwegian following the echo command.The letters will lack as holes. This is NOT the case on a commandline in a console. It is further NOT the case with the same scripts running

Modified WHO to guard against DNS cache poisoning

2006-02-24 Thread Bill Crowell
Attached is the diff output of modifications to who.c vs. source from 5.2.1. Added are the -n and --ipaddr flags and function to return the IP address logged in utmp ut_addr_v6[4] during the socket initialization. This feature provides a mechanism to guard against DNS poisoning as utmp is

Re: rln, a potential new core util

2006-02-24 Thread David Laurence Emerson
Hi Pádraig, Thanks for your reply, and for your suggestions! I'm curious, have these issues come up before? Might I find a similar conversation thread by searching in the archives? Well, anyway, here goes... Could you not use `cp -s` to achieve what you want? cp can make relative symbolic

Re: rln, a potential new core util

2006-02-24 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to David Laurence Emerson on 2/21/2006 4:02 AM: Hey all you wonderful GNU folks, I've written a utility that may be appropriate for future inclusion in the gnu core utils. It assists in the creation of relative-path symlinks,

Re: shell echo do not print special letters

2006-02-24 Thread Philip Rowlands
On Wed, 22 Feb 2006, sigbj-st wrote: Running SCRIPTS as bash do not give off special letters for Norwegian following the echo command.The letters will lack as holes. echo will simply write back the arguments passed to it. If there's a problem with certain characters, that sounds more like a