ADMIN: viruses solved (I think)

[Douglas J Hunley]

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James McDonald shocked and awed us all by speaking:
> In your new sxs on sendmail the echo statements have the backtick,quote
> combination as you mentioned.
>
> Is there any shell or programming significance to this i.e. does the
> shell parse `' combinations in a special way... I know the var=backtick
> command backtick says assign the out-put of this command to the
> variable. So is the backtick,quote combo special also?

you're talking about the config.mc file? that's just how sendmail does shit. 
it encloses things in <left tick>value<right tick> .. which means that my 
echo statements need to escape the <left tick> or the shell tries to 
interpret things instead of just echoing them

did that answer your question, or are we missing each other?
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Douglas J Hunley (doug at hunley.homeip.net) - Linux User #174778
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