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20030318: ldm 6 and freeBSD

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  • Subject: 20030318: ldm 6 and freeBSD
  • Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 11:30:11 -0700
Mark,

>Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 08:13:52 -0700
>From: Unidata Support <address@hidden>
>Organization: UCAR/Unidata
>To: address@hidden
>Subject: 20030317: ldm 6 and freeBSD 

The above message contained the following:

> >From: "Mark J. Laufersweiler" <address@hidden>
> >Organization: OU
> >Keywords: 200303180532.h2I5WiB2010236 LDM-6.0.2 ldmprods
> 
> Hi Mark,
> 
> >Just a note, ldmprods does not work without a fix for freeBSD:
> >
> >%ldmprods
> >ls: illegal option -- x
> >usage: ls [-ABCFGHLPRTWabcdfghiklnoqrstu1] [file ...]
> >No *.stats files found, check logs directory for files.
> >%
> >%uname -a
> >FreeBSD stokes1.metr.ou.edu 4.6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.6.2-RELEASE #0:
> >Wed Aug 14 21:23:26 GMT 2002
> >address@hidden:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC  i386
> >%
> >
> >
> >I munged ldmprods at lines where ls -rx is used and removed the x
> >switch. Seems that FreeBSD does not have the switch.
> 
> OK, This is being passed along to Steve Emmerson for review.

I've replaced the "-rx" option with "-r1".  This will be in release
6.0.3.

Interestingly, our FreeBSD 4.7 system supports the "-x" option.

> >Also I removed the "" around clear in system(clear)

Why?

> >and I also added /usr/bin to the exported path list.

Odd.  It seems to already be in the PATH environment variable of that
script.

Regards,
Steve Emmerson   <http://www.unidata.ucar.edu>