James Carlson wrote:
> Alan Coopersmith writes:
> >     A while ago we switched /sbin/sh from Bourne to the new Korn shell for 
> > our
> > OpenSolaris distribution and everything except network routing setup works. 
> > A
> > closer look revealed that /lib/svc/method/net-routing-setup does not work
> > without any error reported to the log file and a later network service 
> > restart
> > brings the routing online again
> 
> It's already been downgraded to a P3 RFE, as we've never made any
> promise that the script would work with ksh93.
> 
> It's not clear, at least to me, and with the information given,
> whether this is indeed a problem in net-routing-setup, or if it's a
> problem in ksh93's compatibility with /sbin/sh.

Technicially it looks like a difference between the Bourne shell and the
POSIX shell spec (which ksh93 implements) ...
... anyway... patch is on the way and I added this to the list of items
which should be checked by the upcoming "script validator" stuff.

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Bye,
Roland

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