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Configure scripts



Would the notion od O/S fingerprinting play into what you are doing?  I
read about it all the time in firewalling lists; should be searchable on
altavista, etc.  HTH,

Chuck Young
GTE Internetworking

On Sun, 23 May 1999, Jerry Feldman wrote:

> Date: Sun, 23 May 1999 10:55:22 -0400
> From: Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
> To: discuss at blu.org
> Subject: Re: Configure scripts 
> 
> I would like to thank everyone who responded. While my original question 
> was in terms of a distribuiton independent method, the intent was to have a 
> Unix-wide method. Normally, when I put things out to the community, I 
> may already know the answer, but I look for either confirmaiton that this is 
> the right way, or caveats, or alternatives. Basically, I have been 
> complaining about the way the configure scripts were written for one of the 
> products I partially develop because it breaks every time I upgrade my 
> Alpha Linux. After complaining for about 6 months, I finally got the "yeah, 
> we need to fix this, suggest a better way". Currently, we have targets for 
> Solaris (Intel and Sparc), Debian GNU/Linux, Red Hat Linux/Alpha. 
> 
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> |  Gerald Feldman	<gaf at blu.org>                  |
> |  Boston Computer Solutions and Consulting            |
> |  ICQ#156300                                          |           |
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