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

[shaleh@clifford.livenet.net]

> 
> 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
> 

cd /etc/init.d and grep for bash.  My machine uses ash for /bin/sh and I
have no problems.  If you find bash scripts that need not be bash, let the
maintainer know.