> > On Sun, 23 May 1999, Werner Reisberger wrote: > > > I would really aprecciate if the debian base system uses in all important > > system scripts /bin/sh. It would be also safer to use for sh not a symbolic > > link to bash but instead to ash or another bourne compatible shell to avoid > > problems if the bash is broken. > > IIRC, they're trying to do this. But first they have to get rid of the > bash-isms from those scripts, and from a lot of other scripts that use > /bin/sh expecting it to be bash. > > Just out of curiousity, which important startup script has the /bin/bash? > So i can watch out for it if i ever have a broken bash >
cd /etc/init.d and grep for bash. My machine uses ash for /bin/sh and I have no problems. If you find bash scripts that need not be bash, let the maintainer know.
