[11541] in Athena Bugs
bugs in sun do_update script
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Calvin Clark)
Tue Dec 14 06:47:56 1993
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 93 06:47:30 -0500
From: Calvin Clark <ckclark@MIT.EDU>
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Cc: rel-eng@MIT.EDU
The do_update script has two lines with spurious spaces at the
ends of the line after \. This caused deathtongue to fail to
update. These are the lines that need fixing:
; egrep -n '\\[ ]+$' /afs/rel-eng/system/sun4m_51/srvd.76/usr/athena/lib/update/do_update | cat -t
99: mpublic=" /etc/resolv.conf \
107: mpublic=" /etc/resolv.conf \
You must either remove the whitespace at the ends of these lines or
remove the \'s entirely. (Which you can do since:
foo="bar
quux"
is perfectly legal in sh.
foo="bar \
quux"
is okay too, but if you have spaces or tabs after the \,
$foo will be the words:
bar \ quux
which is obviously not what you want.)
-Calvin
