Re: /bin/bash -> /bin/sh

1999-05-26 Thread shaleh
> > On Tue, May 25, 1999 at 03:15:39PM -0400, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Can you be specific and point me to what fails. if it is a matter of making > > ash posix happy, it will be done -- we have the code. Bash is just way too > > heavy for many things. > > > > You

Re: /bin/bash -> /bin/sh

1999-05-26 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
On Tue, May 25, 1999 at 03:15:39PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Can you be specific and point me to what fails. if it is a matter of making > ash posix happy, it will be done -- we have the code. Bash is just way too > heavy for many things. > > You could also provide

Re: /bin/bash -> /bin/sh

1999-05-25 Thread shaleh
> > This is not a good idea. Ash is Bourne-compatible, but not POSIX, which > bash is. That's why bash is used as sh. Install the bash source and look > in the tests/ directory. Run the file posix.tests with bash, and it > passes every test. Ash fails 8 of the tests. > Can you be specific and po

Re: /bin/bash -> /bin/sh

1999-05-25 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
On Sun, May 23, 1999 at 11:30:37AM -0500, Brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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

Re: /bin/bash -> /bin/sh

1999-05-24 Thread Werner Reisberger
On Sun, May 23, 1999 at 11:30:37AM -0500, Brad wrote: > 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 I had bash in /etc/init.d/rcS (hamm). -Werner

Re: /bin/bash -> /bin/sh

1999-05-23 Thread Brad
On Sun, 23 May 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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. i did do that before i sent the first message. The only two i found were two that

Re: /bin/bash -> /bin/sh

1999-05-23 Thread shaleh
> > 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 > > pro

Re: /bin/bash -> /bin/sh

1999-05-23 Thread Brad
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 ba

Re: /bin/bash -> /bin/sh

1999-05-23 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 23 May, Werner Reisberger wrote about "/bin/bash -> /bin/sh" > Some times ago I had a bad experience with the libreadline package. > The installation failed because a required package wasn't installed. That's > ok, but the libreadline package had already replaced my bash with another > one wh