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From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: Taylor UUCP on FreeBSD???
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Date: 21 Jun 94 22:21:45 GMT
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In article <2u6uet$q1d@iaehv.iaehv.nl>,
Arjan de Vet <devet@iaehv.iaehv.nl> wrote:
>In article <2u5hnf$svv@pdq.coe.montana.edu>,
>Nate Williams <nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu> wrote:
>But many packages need a *working* /bin/sh. I tried using ash as a small
>sh on Linux for some time (bash 1.12 gave problems) but it broke at least
>INN's control scripts and trn's Pnews.

Well speaking as the most prolific poster to the *bsd lists (based on
a quick survey done earlier), I can safely say that ash under FreeBSD
works fine with trn's Pnews. :-)

I've not personally tried it with INN, but I know folks who are using INN w/out 
bash, so it may be a Linux problem.

>>And there was a big push a while back to replace bash with ash due
>>to it's size.  Again, for an interactive shell bash is great, but
>>for system performance it just doesn't stack up.
>
>I want a /bin/sh first to work *correctly*, and secondly it's nice when
>it's a small and fast program.

Then let's fix ash. :-)


Nate
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