The KORN SHELL

[Bill Meahan]

In article <37974 at cup.portal.com> thad at cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan) writes:
>wwm at wa8tzg.mi.org (Bill Meahan) in <1991Jan12.220430.1078 at wa8tzg.mi.org>
>writes:
>
>	Has anyone ported ksh88e to the 3b1?  [and is it legal to snarf the
>	ksh88e sources on OSU ??]
>
>If you DID see the ksh88e sources at osu, they're not there now.  Just 10
>minutes ago I checked all three:
>
>	tut.cis.ohio-state.edu		[IP 128.146.8.60]
>	cheops.cis.ohio-state.edu	[IP 128.146.8.62]
>	saqqara.cis.ohio-state.edu	[IP 128.146.8.98]
>
>by doing an "ls -lR" from the root directory, then "grep -in" the dir lists for
>all of "korn","88e","ksh","shell","sh" and didn't see anything suspicious.
>
>What I found were (on cheops):
>
>	csh-src.tar.Z	presumably "csh" source
>	KSH+IN.Z	3B1 installable binary
>
>And I also noticed the pub/att7300 directory on cheops hasn't been updated
>in awhile, but did notice that lavg-daemon.Z was clobbered on Dec 31 12:51;
>it's length is now zero.
>
>What makes(made) you believe the sources to ksh88e are at OSU?
>
>Thad Floryan [ thad at cup.portal.com ]

A ls-lR file uucp'ed from osu-cis on Nov 11, 1990 contained the following:



>>>	receive:
>>>	total 2
>>>	drwxrwxrwx  3 uucp         2048 Nov  8 02:00 perlman
>>>
>>>	receive/perlman:
>>>	total 2
>>>	drwxrwxrwx  3 uucp         2048 Nov  8 05:45 toolchest
>>>
>>>	receive/perlman/toolchest:
>>>	total 10
>>>	-rwxrwxrwx  1 uucp         7374 Nov  8 05:45 INSTALL
>>>	drwxrwxrwx  4 uucp         2048 Nov  8 05:32 ksh-i
>>>
>>>	receive/perlman/toolchest/ksh-i:
>>>	total 4
>>>	drwxrwxrwx  2 uucp         2048 Nov  8 05:31 src
>>>	drwxrwxrwx  2 uucp         2048 Nov  8 05:44 unfmt
>>>
>>>	receive/perlman/toolchest/ksh-i/src:
>>>	total 810
>>>	-rwxrwxrwx  1 uucp          136 Nov  8 02:00 1thank_you
>>>	-rwxrwxrwx  1 uucp        95662 Nov  8 02:06 ksh-88e.0b
>>>	-rwxrwxrwx  1 uucp       105512 Nov  8 03:01 ksh-88e.1b
>>>	-rwxrwxrwx  1 uucp       108133 Nov  8 03:06 ksh-88e.2b
>>>	-rwxrwxrwx  1 uucp       129195 Nov  8 05:07 ksh-88e.3b
>>>	-rwxrwxrwx  1 uucp       109959 Nov  8 05:16 ksh-88e.4b
>>>	-rwxrwxrwx  1 uucp       121299 Nov  8 05:24 ksh-88e.5b
>>>	-rwxrwxrwx  1 uucp       114092 Nov  8 05:27 ksh-88e.6b
>>>	-rwxrwxrwx  1 uucp        35540 Nov  8 05:31 ksh-88e.7b
>>>
>>>	receive/perlman/toolchest/ksh-i/unfmt:
>>>	total 166
>>>	-rwxrwxrwx  1 uucp          136 Nov  8 05:32 1thank_you
>>>	-rwxrwxrwx  1 uucp         4915 Nov  8 05:33 PROMO
>>>	-rwxrwxrwx  1 uucp        97966 Nov  8 05:39 sh.1
>>>     -rwxrwxrwx  1 uucp        63348 Nov  8 05:44 sh.memo

I **THOUGHT** something seemed amiss here since (the last I'd heard) ksh88e
was a commercial product.  Someone at OSU should be more careful!  the
'receive' directory was world-accessible (777) so that anyone who logged in
that day (or until it was discovered and removed) could have slurped up a
copy!  [For the file police - I DID NOT THEN OR EVER DO THAT!!!!]

I'm quite glad that this has been straightened up.  Hate to get anyone in
trouble but I'd also hate to see the OSU archives become unavailable!

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