[Mailman-Users] Hint: mmdsr.sh and Mac OS X Leopard

[Brad Knowles]

There are older versions of sort that don't accept the Gnu-specific  
syntax, while of course there are other (gnu) versions that don't  
support the older syntax. There's not much I can do to fix that -- the  
person installing the code needs to make changes as appropriate for  
their platform.

That's part of why I pull all the definitions for the binaries out  
into the section at the top, so that you can provide alternate paths  
to the appropriate programs.


That said, I will see if I can make some minor changes to the code so  
that this kind of thing is more obvious and easier to take the  
alternative version.

-- 
Brad Knowles <brad at shub-Internet.org>

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On Jan 3, 2008, at 9:24 AM, Steve Burling <srb at umich.edu> wrote:

> Over the holiday, I took the opportunity to do a long-overdue  
> hardware and
> OS upgrade of my home Mailman server.  I'd been running Mac OS X  
> 10.3.9
> (!), and moved to a slightly-less-antique box running Mac OS X 10.5.1.
>
> Mostly, everything went smoothly, but there were a few minor  
> gotchas.  One
> was with mmdsr.sh, and I thought I might save some others the  
> headache of
> figuring this out.  I was getting errors from the 'sort' invocation  
> in the
> line that produces the "Hourly Summary of Posts":
>
> $SED -e 's/^[A-Z][a-z][a-z] *[0-9]* //' -e 's/:.*$//' $TMPLOG |  
> $UNIQ -c |
> $SORT -n +1 | $AWK '{ printf( "%8d  %02d:00-%02d:59\n", $1, $2,  
> $2 ) }' >>
> $TMP
>
> It turns out that according to:
>
> <http://developer.apple.com/releasenotes/Darwin/RN-Unix03Conformance/index.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40004772-DontLinkElementID_5 
> >
>
> 'sort' no longer supports the form 'sort +POS1 -POS2', instead  
> needint the
> form 'sort -k POS1,POS2'.  Of course, In that form POS1 and POS2 are
> 1-based rather than 0-based.  So the 'sort' part of mmdsr.sh line  
> above
> becomes, instead,
>
> $SORT -n -k 2
>
> Hope this saves someone some head scratching...
>
> -- 
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