Re: Making init scripts use dash

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Gabor Gombas <gombasg@sztaki.hu> writes:

> On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 03:17:20AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
>
>> Alternatives are more suited for cases where one binary is provided by
>> multiple packages. Currently we have bash, dash, sash, posh. Anything
>> else?
>
> Alternatives break on a daily basis, I wouldn't trust them for something
> as critical as /bin/sh.
>
> What would be much safer is making /bin/sh a small wrapper that first
> tries to execute /bin/default-shell (which can be managed with
> alternatives) and falls back to hardcoded /bin/bash if that fails.
>
> Gabor

Written in #!/bin/sh? :)))

MfG
        Goswin