Re: Serious "Bug" in most major Linux distros.
On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 10:42:53PM +0000, Peter Corlett wrote:
> Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 17:18:08 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> >> After reading this thread, I decided to install sash.
> > I did that too. Is there a reason why it isn't installed by default?
>
> It seems that the only merit sash has is that it is statically linked. I
> find it to be a horrible shell otherwise, and I'd rather not have that as
> the default root shell on my boxes.
If the system is working fine, then you just type bash (or tcsh, if
you're twisted that way) and go on about your business.
> I'm not sure you gain much by being able to log in if libc is shafted since
> it's pretty much reinstall time by then anyway...
That depends a lot on how it's shafted.
As well, there could be a few things to do before a reinstall that
make it a lot less painful.
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