trainbogo.sh tune

[Matthias Andree]

Am 17.02.2009, 00:05 Uhr, schrieb RW <rwmaillists at googlemail.com>:

> On Mon, 16 Feb 2009 22:43:37 +0100
> "Matthias Andree" <matthias.andree at gmx.de> wrote:
>
>
>> > But why? All *nix operating systems have openssl by default (openssh
>> > need them), i think much better to use openssl and not use md5sum...
>
>
>
>> Stability of interfaces. I've seen openssl change incompatibly
>> before where fetchmail depended on it, for extracting key finger
>> prints, and some systems may have gnutls instead.
>>
>> My options are:
>> - depend on coreutils for FreeBSD (so we have md5sum)
>
> I don't like that, having a dependency that could be easily removed for
> a script most people probably don't use.
>
>> - patch scripts for md5 (for FreeBSD, possible in the port)
>
> That's a better solution, and easy to do in FreeBSD ports.
>
>> - do nothing and let people deal with it (such as: install coreutils)
>
> Or simply make the script more portable e.g.
>
> if [ `which md5sum` ] ;then
>    MD5='md5sum | sed "s/  -//"'
> elif [ `which md5` ]; then
>    MD5=md5
> fi
> ...
> md5=$(printf "%s" "${rndseed}${i}" | $MD5

Only that md5 and md5sum have different command line options and different  
output format...

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Matthias Andree