"long time ago", on MAR 12th, 97, I wrote:
We'd like to report a problem with Digital Unix 4.[0|0A|0B] and would like to
know if others have had similar experiences.
Sometimes ksh would behave very oddly, saying that /bin/pwd was not found, e.g.
myserv:/# cd mnt
sh[4]: /bin/pwd: not found
myserv:#
This was never seen during the time we had DUX3.X.Y! It can be solved, though,
by simply trying again and again :-(
Maybe it has sth. to do with the following ksh funtion (quite useful: the
current working directory, abbreviated when too long, in your prompt):
myserv:/# typeset -f
function xcd
{
"cd" $*
OLDPWD="$LOGPWD"
LOGPWD="$PWD"
PWD="`/bin/pwd`"
if [ ${#PWD} -gt 32 ]
then
typeset -L15 PWDl=$PWD # Mitte des Pfades ausblenden
typeset -R15 PWDr=$PWD
PWD="${PWDl}..${PWDr}"
fi
}
myserv:/#
Would be glad if it was a known bug...
Regards,
----------------------------------------------------------------
Finally, DEC support people found out that the problem lies in my function
writing the PWD variable, which is supposed to be a reserved one.
After I rewrote the function xcd the problem didn't appear any more:
function xcd
{
"cd" $*
OLDPWD="$LOGPWD"
LOGPWD="`/bin/pwd`"
XPWD="$LOGPWD"
if [ ${#XPWD} -gt 32 ]
then
typeset -L15 PWDl=$XPWD # Mitte des Pfades ausblenden
typeset -R15 PWDr=$XPWD
XPWD="${PWDl}..${PWDr}"
fi
}
It has to be mentioned that the problem never appeared under Digital UNIX 3.0 -
3.2G.
Regards,
Thomas Meyer, EDV-Systemadministrator
email: Thomas.Meyer_at_dla-marbach.de
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Received on Wed Nov 12 1997 - 17:25:08 NZDT