Re: 20001212: Problem with scripts and FreeBSD (fwd)

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Robb Kambic                                Unidata Program Center
Software Engineer III                      Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research
address@hidden             WWW: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/
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Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 10:35:48 -0600 (CST)
From: John C. Nordlie <address@hidden>
To: Robb Kambic <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: 20001212: Problem with scripts and FreeBSD

Thanks, Robb, that did the trick.  Here's a list of scripts I
took the -x option out of:

ldmcheck
ldmprods
mailpqstats


On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Robb Kambic wrote:

> On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Unidata Support wrote:
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> > >To: address@hidden
> > >From: "John C. Nordlie" <address@hidden>
> > >Subject: Problem with scripts and FreeBSD
> > >Organization: UCAR/Unidata
> > >Keywords: 200012122213.eBCMDvo05703
> > 
> > Hi.  I'm getting the following errors emailed to my ldm account:
> > 
> >  Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 15:35:01 -0600 (CST)
> >  From: ldm (Cron Daemon)
> >  To: ldm
> >  Subject: Cron <ldm@adiabat> /usr/local/ldm/bin/ldmadmin dostats
> > 
> >  ls: illegal option -- x
> >  usage: ls [-ABCFGHLPRTWabcdfgiklnoqrstu1] [file ...]
> >  could not open  : No such file or directory
> > 
> 
> John,
> 
> The -x flag used on other Unix OSs cause the files to be displayed across
> the page with the ls command.  Most of the time it's the default display
> configuration. I guess it not available on FreeBSD. To fix the scripts, I
> would just remove the -x flag, the scripts will work without it.
> 
> Robb...
> 
> 
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> > 
> > I also get the error (trying to use option -x with ls) when I try to
> > run ldmprods.  I found the place in the code where the option is
> > passed (in pqmailstats for the 'ldmadmin dostats' error and in
> > ldmprods), but I don't want to just take it out because I don't know
> > what it's supposed to do.  Any suggestions?
> > 
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> Robb Kambic                              Unidata Program Center
> Software Engineer III                    Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research
> address@hidden                   WWW: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/
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