Re: [hylafax-users] Error message '-e' ?

["Darren Nickerson" <darren.nickerson@xxxxxxxx>]

"Jean-Pierre Radley" <jpr@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Ah, I see in the notify script that there's a command "echo -e ...".
> ../bin/notify runs using /bin/sh, and nether the built-in echo in
> /bin/sh nor /bin/echo on this machine know about any -e flag.  I think
> GNU's echo does have such a flag but you can't assume that's what I'm
> running.
>
> I'm appending the typescript of running that notify command with sh -x.
> Nothing obvious to me about where the printf error occurs.
>
> BTW: why does the configure script detect the presense of bash or ksh,
> then decide to use it for those scripts which go into /usr/local/sbin,
> but not those in /usr/local/spool/hylafax/bin?

Jean-Pierre (and anyone else who may be interested), I've filed this issue 
at:

  http://bugs.hylafax.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=724

Anyone's welcome to join in and help get to the bottom of this - you don't 
need a bugzilla account to view but you'll need to get one if you want to 
post!

-Darren 


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