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Re: update
From: Will Yardley <nanog () veggiechinese net>
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 21:41:04 -0700
On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 05:11:22AM +0200, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
On Wed, 24 Sep 2014, Jim Popovitch wrote:I *did* read that, and it doesn't change anything about what I wrote. Debian didn't make those changes for you...... Debian has never set root's shell to bash, ever. PEBKAC?I can verify Williams settings on my Debian system that was initially installed back in 3.x days or so, probably around 2005 or thereabouts. My root shell uses bash and /bin/sh points to bash.
I haven't administered many Debian / Ubuntu systems recently, but I did during the days of hamm / slink / potato, and my recollection is that the *default* /bin/sh in 2.x and 3.x was bash, though it was possible to configure the system to use ash or something lighter weight instead. Doubt I currently have access to any systems that old, but: % cat /etc/debian_version 5.0.4 % ls -al /bin/sh lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2009-03-05 16:58 /bin/sh -> bash* % which dash dash not found $ cat /etc/debian_version 5.0.9 $ ls -al /bin/sh lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2010-08-02 12:21 /bin/sh -> bash* So, I think "never... ever" is maybe not quite correct. w
Current thread:
- Re: update, (continued)
- Re: update Daniel Jackson (Sep 24)
- Re: update Chris Adams (Sep 24)
- Re: update Jimmy Hess (Sep 24)
- Re: update William Herrin (Sep 24)
- Re: update Jim Popovitch (Sep 24)
- Re: update William Herrin (Sep 24)
- Re: update Jim Popovitch (Sep 24)
- Re: update William Herrin (Sep 24)
- Re: update Jim Popovitch (Sep 24)
- Re: update Mikael Abrahamsson (Sep 24)
- Re: update Will Yardley (Sep 24)
- Re: update Jimmy Hess (Sep 24)
- Re: update William Herrin (Sep 24)
- Re: update Jimmy Hess (Sep 24)
- Re: update Jim Gettys (Sep 26)
- RE: update Keith Medcalf (Sep 26)
- Re: update Jay Ashworth (Sep 27)
- Re: update Jimmy Hess (Sep 27)
- RE: update Keith Medcalf (Sep 27)
- Re: update Kenneth Finnegan (Sep 28)
- RE: update Keith Medcalf (Sep 27)