Comments on: Securing MySQL installations with mysql_secure_installation http://prefetch.net/blog/index.php/2006/06/18/securing-mysql-installations-with-mysql_secure_installation/ Blog O' Matty Fri, 04 May 2012 19:58:36 +0000 hourly 1 By: Matty http://prefetch.net/blog/index.php/2006/06/18/securing-mysql-installations-with-mysql_secure_installation/comment-page-1/#comment-25322 Matty Sun, 18 Jun 2006 16:08:30 +0000 http://daemons.net/~matty/blog/?p=454#comment-25322 Hi Martin, I took this example from a Solaris host, and the echo that resides in /usr/bin doesn't understand the '-n' option: $ /usr/bin/echo -n foo -n foo The one in /usr/ucb does though: $ /usr/ucb/echo -n foo foo I think the MySQL installation process needs to be fixed to use /usr/ucb/echo if it detects a Solaris host. Otherwise, /usr/bin/echo should suffice. - Ryan Hi Martin,

I took this example from a Solaris host, and the echo that resides in /usr/bin doesn’t understand the ‘-n’ option:

$ /usr/bin/echo -n foo
-n foo

The one in /usr/ucb does though:

$ /usr/ucb/echo -n foo
foo

I think the MySQL installation process needs to be fixed to use /usr/ucb/echo if it detects a Solaris host. Otherwise, /usr/bin/echo should suffice.

- Ryan

]]> By: Martin Alexander Hammer http://prefetch.net/blog/index.php/2006/06/18/securing-mysql-installations-with-mysql_secure_installation/comment-page-1/#comment-25233 Martin Alexander Hammer Sun, 18 Jun 2006 13:46:35 +0000 http://daemons.net/~matty/blog/?p=454#comment-25233 In bash, "echo -n" is used to suppress printing a newline after the text. In this script, it would mean that the user response (y/n) would stay on the same line as the question being asked. The regular Bourne shell does not understand the "-n" parameter and just prints it. In bash, “echo -n” is used to suppress printing a newline after the text. In this script, it would mean that the user response (y/n) would stay on the same line as the question being asked. The regular Bourne shell does not understand the “-n” parameter and just prints it.

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