Re: Several reasons why debian should not use bash for /bin/sh

To: Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
Cc: Jaakko Niemi <liiwi@lonesom.pp.fi>, debian-devel@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Several reasons why debian should not use bash for /bin/sh
From: Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu>
Date: 02 Aug 1998 12:22:19 -0500
Message-id: <[🔎] 87ogu3nvsk.fsf@nevermore.csres.utexas.edu>
In-reply-to: Marcus Brinkmann's message of "Sat, 1 Aug 1998 20:53:39 +0200"
References: <19980801003611.P243@ruhr-uni-bochum.de> <[🔎] liiwi-980801153435.A0111260@lonesom> <[🔎] 19980801205339.A353@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>

Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de> writes:

> You most certainly also want /var/lib/dpkg, or else you won't be able to use
> dpkg any more! (Recovering from that is possible, but very time consuming,
> as all information about installed packages is gone then).

You may want other things in /var too.  For example, bind stores all
its local DNS configuration in /var/named.

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