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Re: Debian Testing VMWare-Tools Bad Variable Name



On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 09:31:34AM -0500, Selim T. Erdogan wrote:
> This is a long shot but for some reason I was reminded of
> having trouble with a non-debian script a few months ago, that 
> also asked to be run by /bin/sh (as your attachment did).
> 
> At the time, on my wheezy system (while it was still in testing), 
> /bin/sh pointed to dash, not bash, so the script didn't work 
> right.  I fixed it with "dpkg-reconfigure dash".
> 
> So you could check if the /bin/sh on the two systems points to
> the same shell with the same version.

Wouldn't it be better to change the line in the script to point to bash?



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