Date: Tue, 9 May 1995 21:34:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Wes Santee <wsantee@wsantee.oz.net> To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: pdksh errors - Solved! Message-ID: <199505100613.XAA06332@wsantee.oz.net>
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Well, I dunno if anybody has any interest in this, but I solved my
earlier problem of pdksh crapping out whenever I tried to run
/usr/bin/clear. The error was in the global /etc/ksh.kshrc file.
Here is the culprit:
HOSTNAME=${HOSTNAME:-`uname -n`
HOST=${HOSTNAME%%.*} <--- error
My Korn Shell book is at work so I haven't tried to figure out what is
wrong with that statement. For all intents and purposes it *should*
work. But, I commented it out, and now pdksh is happy.
Incidentally, you may recall that the original error was:
/usr/bin/clear: 21: syntax error: bad substitution
Well, I'll leave it to the reader to figure out what line number the
offending statement was in the /etc/ksh.kshrc file. :)
Cheers,
-Wes
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