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From: andreas@knobel.gun.de (Andreas Klemm)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Is replacing /bin/sh with bash recommended?
Date: 13 Apr 1996 12:54:51 GMT
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In article <4j0tp5$shj@calypso.bns.com.au>,
	mike@calypso.bns.com.au (Michael Talbot-Wilson) writes:
>devet@adv.IAEhv.nl (Arjan de Vet) writes:
>
>>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. Earlier /bin/sh versions were much worse breaking
>>even more scripts (Pnews from trn), so I just replaced /bin/sh with bash
>>on older FreeBSD versions.
>
>You remind me that I had similar problems compiling INN and strn.  Perhaps
>because they weren't official FreeBSD "ports".  Yes, they were fixed by
>switching to bash.

Let's be serious ... I never had such problems and if there were some
problems, why didn't you report them earlier. BTW, we have Mid of April
and FreeBSD-2.1 and -stable version as well as -current versions are out.

Perhaps you should upgrade your os via sup or CTM, do a make world and
recompile the ports, that aren't working correctly ...

BTW, I remember Slackware 2.0, where bash 1.14.1 or .2 broke many things
in the main Linux System. Inn and cnews scripts didn't work well. You
had to wit for another new bash version ... So bash doesn't always fix
your problems ... And the greatest Problem with bash is:
new version -> possibly new bugs ...

So then ... better fix ash _if_ the is an error involved with it, to
get a stabel version, instead of taking a shell, where every now and then
a new version gets out, which of course many people like to get ...

But who can make sure, that is doesn't break things ...
Better end of discussion ... people, you can grab your loveliest
'toy' out of ports ... This is the place for additional software.

I don't want another Linux based on a FreeBSD kernel, period.

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