Re: Fwd: /bin/sh linked to dash? SOlVED, however..

Bruce Sass <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.ports.amd64
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On July 8, 2011 03:39:01 PM Robert Isaac wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 10:55 PM, Lennart Sorensen
> 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Finding all scripts with /bin/sh and changing them to /bin/bash can be
> > done in a couple of lines of perl.  Trivial to do really
> 
> It's more trivial to change the default shell to bash if it is
> necessary for a configuration, there is no need to get defensive about
> dash or force its use upon anyone that doesn't want to use it.

Scripts using /bin/sh when they actually need /bin/bash *should* be fixed.

Until they are...

# dpkg-reconfigure dash

...works around the problem.


- Bruce
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