[Xymon] Xymon version 4.3.9 now available

[Ryan Novosielski]

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On 07/24/2012 12:48 PM, Henrik Størner wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This version cleans up a couple of issues that arose with the
> 4.3.8 release, most notably the problem with "disable until" being
> broken, and some issues with building Xymon - mainly on Solaris
> boxes (1).
> 
> (1) Apparently, the "tr" command on Solaris 10 is incredibly broken
> when you have LANG set to something other than "C".

I'm told by Oracle (Sun) that this has been broken back to Solaris 2.6
on multibyte locales and that they finally deigned to fix it in 11 but
are hemming and hawing about fixing it in 10. More information for
those interested:

/usr/bin/tr should support multibyte charactes/locales
http://wesunsolve.net/bugid/id/6628310

Comments by another blogger:

A little note about something to be careful of when compiling and
developing applications within a non singlebyte locale (a Unicode or
locale other than "C"). You should always check the man pages of the
utilities you're using in your build process or anywhere else first
before using them. Some of the utilities that are in /usr/bin or /bin
only properly handle singlebyte locales and won't work properly in others.

For example, the "tr" utility in /bin/tr or /usr/bin/tr will fail with
a not-so-helpful message about "bad string" when in reality you've
given it perfectly valid input. This is a result of it not supporting
singlebyte locales. Instead, you will have to use /usr/xpg4/bin/tr or
/usr/xpg6/bin/tr which support multi-byte locales.

Yay Solaris!
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