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Re: [Fwd: Athena 9.4.39 patch release Monday June 18]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Denis Daly)
Tue Sep 4 17:18:03 2007
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From: Denis Daly <ddaly@MIT.EDU>
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Hi Greg,
Today I logged into m38-370-1 Athena Linux workstation today but ksh
didn't appear to be loaded. Is there something we need to do to get it
working properly?
Thanks,
Denis
Greg Hudson wrote:
> 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
>>
>
>
