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Re: Hosed my debian system.



Brandon Mitchell <bhmit1@mail.wm.edu> writes:

> Would anyone disagree to a statically linked /sbin/sh.  It doesn't have 
> to be bash.  The idea is to have it for emergencies, and paranoid admins 
> would use it for the root shell.  (i.e. when /bin/sh blows up, move 
> /bin/sh to /bin/sh.bak and ln -s /sbin/sh /bin/sh.)

We've already been over this argument many times.  It's pointless to
have staticly linked binaries because there are always more binaries
that are important.  A much better solution is a rescue floppy.


Guy


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