From: lat@iki.fi (Lassi A. Tuura) Subject: Re: bash "pregnant pauses" revisited (B19 on NT 4.0) 20 Aug 1998 12:30:29 -0700 Message-ID: References: <19980817233433.B7035@riga.schoenewald.de> Reply-To: "Lassi A. Tuura" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Arndt Schoenewald Cc: Ulrich Lauther , Earnie Boyd , Matthias Morche , Cygwin32 Maillist |> I don't know what the default mail path for the bash.exe shipped with |> B19 is (echo $MAILPATH or $MAIL doesn't print anything), but I took a |> hex editor to look into the binary and found an instance of the string |> "unknown" not far from occurances of MAIL and MAILPATH. I patched the |> string from "unknown" to "no-idea", and guess what, the system started |> to query my name server for "no-idea". Gotcha. Read from line 1149 onwards in aclocal.m4 (in bash 2.01), that starts with the very telling words: AC_DEFUN(BASH_DEFAULT_MAIL_DIR, [AC_MSG_CHECKING(for default mail directory) and ends after lots of checking with: AC_DEFINE(DEFAULT_MAIL_DIRECTORY, "unknown") Looks like whoever builds the distributions could make us all the favour of first creating the directory /usr/spool/mail (or any of the other ones that are checked for)? Cheers, //lat -- With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not necessarily a good idea. It is hard to be sure where they are going to land, and it could be dangerous sitting under them as they fly overhead. --RFC1925, "The Twelve Networking Truths" - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".