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  1. Moodle
  2. MDL-6850

du needs to be GNU du

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    • Bug
    • Status: Closed
    • Major
    • Resolution: Fixed
    • 1.8.2, 1.9
    • 1.6.8, 1.7.6, 1.8.7, 1.9.3
    • Administration
    • None
    • Solaris 10, sparc64, Mac OS X Server
    • MOODLE_18_STABLE, MOODLE_19_STABLE
    • MOODLE_16_STABLE, MOODLE_17_STABLE, MOODLE_18_STABLE, MOODLE_19_STABLE

    Description

      In Administration >> Configuration >> Variables >> Operating System is an entry for pathtodu. This should specify that GNU du is needed since du is called with --apparent-size, a GNUism. Otherwise, the error logs will contain lines similar to:
      /usr/bin/du: illegal option – apparent-size
      usage: du [-a] [-d] [-h|-k] [-r] [-o|-s] [-H|-L] [file ...]

      The page in question is lang/en_utf8/admin.php

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            dougiamas Martin Dougiamas
            frisco francisco
            Nicolas Martignoni Nicolas Martignoni
            David Woloszyn, Huong Nguyen, Jake Dallimore, Meirza, Michael Hawkins, Raquel Ortega, Safat Shahin, Stevani Andolo
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              Updated:
              Resolved:
              15/Oct/08