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Re: [Fwd: Athena 9.4.39 patch release Monday June 18]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Wed Jun 27 12:32:34 2007
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: Michael McIlrath <mbm@mit.edu>
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Joyce Kwong <jyskwong@mit.edu>, Alex T Prengel <alexp@mit.edu>
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Sure, I'll make a note to add ksh to the next Linux patch release. It
should happen before the end of the summer.
On Tue, 2007-06-26 at 12:06 -0400, Michael McIlrath wrote:
> Greg Hudson wrote:
> > I just checked, and the availability of /bin/ksh did not change with the
> > 9.4.39/40 patch release. It is still present under Solaris and absent
> > under Linux, as it was previously.
>
> Can ksh be added to the athena linux release? The software for a class we
> are trying to move to athena linux includes a third party
> binary program that creates a #!/bin/ksh executable script.
> I don't see a graceful workaround at the moment.
>
> The redhat package is pdksh and should be available through the proxy server.
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
