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pdksh required for RHEL installation

Kevin TysonNov 14 2010 — edited Nov 16 2010
I attempted to install Oracle database 11.2 on the latest version of Fedora which is based on RHEL. I met all the requirement checks except for the pdksh package. The pdksh package is no longer available with Fedora having been replaced by mksh. It seems that the only remaining source of the pdksh package is from an ftp site maintained by some guy at Memorial university in Canada. I downloaded pdksh and tried to install it.

When I ran the make command for the pdksh installation, I got the following message:

../siglist.sh "gcc -E -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.." < ../siglist.in > tmpsiglist.out
sort: open failed: +2n: No such file or directory
make: *** [siglist.out] Error 1

pdksh is not supported, not warranted, and is out of date having been replaced by mksh. I ran into all sorts of problems trying to compile pdksh. I had to convert all my header files to ph files using h2ph, but I still can't compile pdksh.

pdksh is no longer distributed by Red Hat, so you have to get it from an untrusted site on the internet. This is a major security vulnerabilty. There is no way I want this unverified software on my production server.

Has anyone else had problems with pdksh?
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