On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Schuster, Dan wrote: > When our postinstall program on RH7 does an echo to create a file like: > echo "mybox" > /etc/HOSTNAME > > The file ends up being /etc/HOSTNAME? (with a ? at the end of it). Why is > this doing this and how do you stop it from happening. Does it have to do > with how the ks.cfg file is created -or- how it is copied to the floppy > disk? Are you creating this on a DOS machine? You're probably getting a LF to go along with the CR (or do I have that backwards?). Erik ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | "Who is John Galt?" - Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand | | | | Linux Application Development -- http://people.redhat.com/johnsonm/lad |