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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!qns3.qns.com!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zib-berlin.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Is replacing /bin/sh with bash recommended? Date: 22 Mar 1996 00:27:26 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 23 Message-ID: <4iss5e$eor@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4ih5qb$lae@blackice.winternet.com> <4ipkqm$t6h@adv.iaehv.nl> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 devet@adv.IAEhv.nl (Arjan de Vet) writes: > I never experienced anything nasty with a *statically* linked bash 1.14 in > small configuration (no command line editor and some other things) as > /bin/sh. (Btw., so you'd lose the command-line editor, even ash has it. :-) > At least on 2.0.5 I still had to use bash 1.14 to run some shell scripts > from INN 1.4: /bin/sh would give very strange errors, even infinite loops > if I remember correctly. I'm running INN on FreeBSD since 1.1.5.1. I don't think i've ever triggered a bug in ash with it. In fact, all of this writing goes through INN finally, and while i keep /usr/local/bin/bash, and /usr/local/bin/kch for reference, ash is still my standard shell. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)