Package: util-vserver
Severity: important

Hello

Thanks for the note. I have now filed this as a bug against the util-vserver
package in debian (that I maintain) so it will not be forgotten.

Regards,

// Ola

On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 04:45:24PM +0100, Gaz Wilson wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> Just a short note to let you know that under some circumstances, Debian
> offers for you to link /bin/sh to a shell called dash, which is supposed
> to be a faster, smaller bash.  Unfortunately dash is incompatible with
> some of the vserver scripts - most notably vserver-copy breaks terribly
> when /bin/sh is symlinked to dash.
> 
> I'm not sure if it's worth re-writing the scripts to cater for dash as I
> don't know how popular it will become - certainly it looks like a new
> addition to Debian as I have only been asked about this on my most
> recent server builds (I use Debian Sarge, and I think the question comes
> about as a result of a recent apt-upgrade).
> 
> If this is deemed insignificant, then at least we know about it know so
> maybe it could be added to a trouble shooting section on the website? At the
> very least the fact it'll be in the mailling list archive might help some
> poor soul in the future who might think things are just broken - it took
> me a couple of hours to figure out whats going on here ;)
> 
> Cheers
> 
> GW
> 
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