Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 20:37:58 -0400 (EDT) From: vogelke+unix@pobox.com (Karl Vogel) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sorta newb help compiling samba Message-ID: <20090411003758.D80D0BE71@kev.msw.wpafb.af.mil> In-Reply-To: <20090410214414.acc2dc6d.freebsd@edvax.de> (message from Polytropon on Fri, 10 Apr 2009 21:44:14 %2B0200)
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>> On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 21:44:14 +0200,
>> Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> said:
P> Why don't you use echo -n which suppresses the newline instead of involving
P> another program to do something that echo can do on its own? This is how
P> FreeBSD does it in its system scripts.
Some of my scripts date back to 1994, and they've been run under FreeBSD,
Linux, and Solaris using /bin/sh, ATT Korn shell, Solaris's version
of the Korn shell (which is sure as hell *NOT* the same thing), pdksh,
and bash. Unfortunately, "echo -n" hasn't behaved consistently, so I
used the (pretty gross) hack
# echo without newline
necho () {
echo "$*" | tr -d '\012'
}
P> And according to
P> test -d /usr/bin || exit 0 # /usr not mounted
P> Woudln't it be more compliant to exit 1 to signal an error due to /usr not
P> being mounted?
Probably. The only times I've ever tried to do anything without /usr
mounted is when running single-user, so a message saying /usr/bin is
missing wouldn't be a bad idea.
--
Karl Vogel I don't speak for the USAF or my company
The danger is not that one class is unfit to govern.
All classes are unfit to govern. --Lord Acton
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