Re: A bit of Linux advice yet again??

From: Frank <fvanbortel_at_netscape.net>
Date: Sun, 02 Feb 2003 16:47:19 +0100
Message-ID: <3E3D3D87.3040001@netscape.net>

Noons wrote:
> "Howard J. Rogers" <howardjr2000_at_yahoo.com.au> wrote in
> news:%kV_9.38366$jM5.97308_at_newsfeeds.bigpond.com and I quote:
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>>I was following my old instructions for SuSe 7.1, where .profile worked,
>>but I now realise the error of my ways in hoping that the same operating
>>system would work the same way, regardless of the distro!
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> One thing: bash is very specific to Linux. And to some distributions.
> If you want to make sure your code will always behave the same way,
> then stick to Unix-standard shells. That means bourne shell and Korn shell.
> Both of these use .profile and will work exactly the same across
> every single Unix flavour you can imagine.
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> With all respect to Linux users, bash is not yet a standard in the
> Unix world. Hence the probs you're having. It's much better if you
> standardise all your scripts in a shell that can be found everywhere.
> The one I found to be universal is the Korn shell, or "ksh" for short.
> Nowadays even the ubiquitous bourne-shell has been stuffed up,
> namely by HP with their "posix shell"! Ksh is pretty much the same
> everywhere and always works the same way. Which means: "predictable".
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> Having said that, if you have a .profile and a .bash_profile,
> run the .profile from inside the other one, using the ". "
> convention and you should be right. You can always find a way
> of keeping things the same in the Unix world! ;)
>

Hear, hear! Do you hear that, Oracle?
Currenlty trying to convince an old dual celeron machine to install 9iAS Rel.10221. The install scripts have sh, csh and ksh spelled all over the place - and ksh isn't standard on modern Linux distro's anymore...
Gave up changing them over and again, and installed the Korn shell...

Oh well, just been through the 5th 'delete user portal30 cascade'...

No, I'm not going to install Rel2 - I do not have 2G memory in this box, and never will.

Frank Received on Sun Feb 02 2003 - 09:47:19 CST