Re: {bb} BB on RedHat 5.1

[Robert-Andre Croteau <sirac@videotron.ca>]

Raed Nashef wrote:
> 
> Brothers,
> 
> It looks like mkbb.sh is acting weird on the RH 5.1 system I got here. I have BB
> installed in "/usr/local/src/bb/1.08/", the mkbb.sh script is reporting the
> following error:
> 
> --
> /usr/local/src/bb/1.08/web/mkbb.sh: /usr/local/src/bb/1: No such file or directory
> --
> 
> It looks like somehow mkbb.sh does not like the "." (dot in 1.08) in this path!
> It is truncating it!
> 
> Any ideas which command in the mkbb.sh is causing that??

If it's 1.08b, then in mkbb.sh there's some code that 
has the infamous OLDIFS=$IFS line.  Remove that block
of code as it is unnecessary and troublesome.

#
# SMM 1.09 - SOME MAY WANT TO PAGE ON PURPLE DISPLAYS...
# UNCOMMENT THIS IF BLOCK IF YOU DO ***BETA***
# UNDOCUMENTED CODE 411 - INFO...
        if test "$PAGER" != ""
        then
                OLDIFS=$IFS
                IFS='.'
                set $BBDISP >/dev/null 2>/dev/null
                IPADDR=${1}${2}${3}${4}
                $BB $BBPAGE "page 411${IPADDR} No report from $FNAME"
                IFS=$OLDIFS
        fi

Remove this offending code ...

bye,
-- 
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