Re: An empassioned plea for deaf ears...
On Tue, Jun 15, 1999 at 11:59:31AM -0700, Joe Emenaker wrote:
> So... again... I make my annual cry to the package gods:
>
> Why are the *system-critical* binaries dynamically linked? If you hose your
> ld.so, ld-linux, or libc, that breaks login (so there's no way to get into
> the system after a reboot), bash (so many shell scripts won't work), ls (so
> you can't use 'ls -l' to see which libs the symlinks are pointing to), cp
> and mv (so you can't try using different libs), ed (so you can't edit any
> files), and mount.
Install the sash package and make sash root's default shell. Sash _is_
a statically linked shell with lot's of built in commands including ls,
cd, chmod, chown, mount etc..
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