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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!asstdc.scgt.oz.au!metro!metro!news.cs.su.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!news.cps.udayton.edu!news.engr.udayton.edu!blackbird.afit.af.mil!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sprintlink.net!helena.MT.net!nate From: nate@trout.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Is replacing /bin/sh with bash recommended? Date: 20 Mar 1996 17:06:07 GMT Organization: SRI Intl. - Montana Operations Lines: 37 Message-ID: <4ipdtv$d6m@helena.MT.net> References: <4ih5qb$lae@blackice.winternet.com> <4ik5p6$qm6@helena.mt.net> <DoJrqo.6F9@twwells.com> Reply-To: "Nate Williams" <nate@sneezy.sri.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: trout.sri.mt.net In article <DoJrqo.6F9@twwells.com>, T. William Wells <bill@twwells.com> wrote: >In article <4ik5p6$qm6@helena.mt.net>, >Nate Williams <nate@sneezy.sri.com> wrote: >: In article <4ih5qb$lae@blackice.winternet.com>, >: John D. Boggs <jdb@robigo.winternet.com> wrote: >: >What sort of nasties (if any) should I expect if I replace /bin/sh >: >with bash in FreeBSD-2.1.0? >: >: Big ones. > >This is a load of shit. Since I converted to NetBSD/FreeBSD on the >various machines I've used over the last two odd years, I have >*always* replaced /bin/sh with a statically linked bash. Except >right at the beginning, when NetBSD's /usr/src Makefiles were >fucked up, I have had _no_ problems. None at all. Then you've never rebuilt FreeBSD, because the build system *requires* the /bin/sh supplied and blows chunks if you use bash. >It's also worth noting *why* I switched to bash: because the !@#$ >shell that comes with the system had problems, "big ones", in >dealing with many shell scripts.... Most of these have been fixed in 4.4Lite, and since then even *more* have been fixed. The current /bin/sh is pretty good. Nate -- nate@sneezy.sri.com | Research Engineer, SRI Intl. - Montana Operations nate@trout.sri.MT.net | Loving life in God's country, the great state of work #: (406) 449-7662 | Montana. home #: (406) 443-7063 | A fly pole and a 4x4 Chevy truck = Heaven on Earth