Re: flexfax: Configuration issues for Class 1 modems, and the newsecurity patches

[Tim Rice <tim@trr.metro.NET>]

On Sun, 15 Nov 1998, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:

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> On Sun, 15 Nov 1998, Tim Rice wrote:
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> > [snip]
> > > 
> > > Also: the new security patches for faxsetup, recvstats, probemodem,
> > > etc. use the "noclobber" shell option. This option is unfortunately a
> > > *BASH* option, and is not available under the older SunOS shell. I'm
> > > not quite sure what to do about that....
> > 
> > noclober seems to be in ksh.
> > All my SCO Unix and UnixWare platforms seem to run them under
> > ksh (#! /bin/ksh).
> > Do the older SunOS's not have ksh?
> 
> SunOS does not come with ksh. I'd *REALLY* rather not have to
> add a new shell to my machines to make HylaFAX work: can we set up
> the equivalent of the "noclobber" functionality by other means?

I suspect that if you want the "noclobber" functionality on SunOS
you are going to have to use a different shell.

The real question is how do we get the security patches in the next
patch level without breaking things.

One option would be to leave out the set -o noclobber and set +o noclobber
lines.

Another option would to have configure add them in if supported.
So faxsetup.sh.in would look something like
....
        while true; do
            if [ "$ok" != skip ]; then
                test -f $PROMPTS || (
               @MINUS_NOCLOBBER@
                > $PROMPTS || exit 1
               @PLUS_NOCLOBBER@
                compilePrompts>$PROMPTS<<EOF
....

and then at a minuium have two new entries in config.site.
#MINUS_NOCLOBBER=set -o noclobber
#PLUS_NOCLOBBER=set +o noclobber

Anyone want to write a script to test noclobber at configure time.
Be sure to use whatever shell is selected buy configure. $SCRIPT_SH


> 
> Solaris is its own story....
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