A GNU bash2 oddity -- was: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] An Oddity (bug)inRedhat 7.1

[Kenneth Loafman]

herrold wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Kenneth Loafman wrote:
> 
> > The sample test I put together was just to prove that there was not due
> > to a difference between ActiveState Python on one machine and python.org
> > relases on the other machines.
> 
> eeuggh ... you _tricked_ me into working on Windows support -- you are
> _so evil_ ...

Nope.  ActiveState has a Linux distro as well.  I had installed the
python.org distro via the normal configure and make route on Redhat.  My
sysadmin does not like anything that is not a package so he installed
via the only Debian package available for 2.1.1, which was ActiveState. 
The client installed via ActiveState as well, but with a Redhat
package.  A real mix for compatibility issues.  Was not all compatible. 
Had to find out where.

We're running on Linux because I refuse to pay M$ for their slop when
there's absolutely nothing we're doing that requires M$ for
functionality.  Considering that this package is going on a large server
farm of 40-50 servers, keeping that much money away from M$ has its own
bit of satisfaction.

...Ken