ALberto, Thanks for doing the test. Please gzip your fixed scanModem and send it to me. Marvin On 4/7/07, acanonaco@xxxxxxxxx <acanonaco@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Thank you for the suggestion. In fact, after replacing each `...` with $(...) scanModem worked without errors. Alberto > On Fri, 6 Apr 2007, Jacques Goldberg wrote: > > > In view of the very large number of people who had no such problem, even > > using FC5, and of a test which I just did (with an other Linux distribution), > > the most likely reason is a failure in downloading and/or installing the > > file. > > This is a problem that has been encountered in Slackware 11. It > appeared to be a problem with Bash but is still being looked into. > > Although the scanModem script could be re-coded around it... > > substituting constructs like > > `ls -l` > by > $(ls -l) > > it doesn't appear to be a fault with scanModem. > > I'll report back further if I come up with a substantive > explanation of what's really going on. > > Are you asserting that _only some_ Fedora Core 5 installations > don't show this behaviour? > > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-|message from the cookie daemon| > > The times do not appear propitious for violence or militancy but surely > a bit of sabotage and imaginative disruption is never out of place. > > -- > John Pate <johnny@xxxxxxxxxx> > Edinburgh, Scotland (home PC) > Disclaimer: I've probably changed my opinions by the time you read this > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > ------------------------------------------------------ Passa a Infostrada. ADSL e Telefono senza limiti e senza canone Telecom http://click.libero.it/infostrada
