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Replacing bash with ash as /bin/sh symlinked shell



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    Because of recent discussion on here about disaster recovery someone
made a suggestion of installing ash and symlinking /bin/sh to it instead of
bash.  I've done that on both a recent Potato system and an up-to-date Slink
system.  So far I've not noticed anything breaking, only a slight dip
(1-2Mb) in RAM usage.  This is most noticable on my Slink system since it is
on a laptop with only 20Mb.

    For the record, bash is about 2.5 times the size of ash in memory.  For
those non-interactive shells, that helps out a lot.  :)

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