Newsgroups: news.software.b Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: spurious newlines from cnews newsrun Message-ID: <1990Jul25.131934.23342@zoo.toronto.edu> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: <1990Jul23.152014.12332@maytag.waterloo.edu> <1990Jul24.180609.26204@zoo.toronto.edu> <1990Jul25.012912.5927@twinsun.com> Date: Wed, 25 Jul 90 13:19:34 GMT In article <1990Jul25.012912.5927@twinsun.com> eggert@walrus.twinsun.com (Paul Eggert) writes: >Is it possible that the spurious newlines arise because newsrun invokes rsh, >the login shell on the remote site is the C shell, and the remote .cshrc >contains a command that outputs newlines? It's conceivable, although somebody else will have to find out for sure, since we are totally ignorant of the C shell and have no intention of changing that. >! rsh $server /bin/sh -c "PATH=$PATH relaynews -r -n" <$text >--- 114,121 ---- >! rsh $server exec /bin/sh -c "PATH=$PATH; export PATH; exec relaynews -r -n" <$text Hmmm... The second exec is a fairly good idea. The first one depends on whatever whacko default shell is on the other end having "exec", and I'm a bit less sure about that. -- NFS: all the nice semantics of MSDOS, | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology and its performance and security too. | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry