Re: /bin/sh and ash, bash
On Sun, Jan 02, 2000 at 03:34:51PM -0600, matt garman wrote:
>
> I noticed that Debian makes /bin/sh a symlink to /bin/bash by default.
> I'd rather have /bin/sh link to /bin/ash. I tried this quite a while
> ago, and it seems as though some Debian-specific scripts rely on /bin/sh
> actually being bash. In other words, last time I linked /bin/sh to
> /bin/ash, a few things got broken.
>
> I was just curious if anyone knew whether or not it's "safe" to link
> /bin/sh to /bin/ash?
That is the goal. If anything breaks when using a posix compliant shell
for /bin/sh, then a bug should be filed for the package woning them to the
affect that it needs to have #!/bin/bash for the interpreter.
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