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Re: /bin/bash -> /bin/sh



On Sun, 23 May 1999, Werner Reisberger wrote:

> I would really aprecciate if the debian base system uses in all important
> system scripts /bin/sh. It would be also safer to use for sh not a symbolic
> link to bash but instead to ash or another bourne compatible shell to avoid
> problems if the bash is broken.

IIRC, they're trying to do this. But first they have to get rid of the
bash-isms from those scripts, and from a lot of other scripts that use
/bin/sh expecting it to be bash.

Just out of curiousity, which important startup script has the /bin/bash?
So i can watch out for it if i ever have a broken bash


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