Maybe either the scripts are so old that they were never updated when newer shells besides bash came out, or maybe they assumed that all newer shells would be bash-compatible, or maybe the people who wrote them are just stupid :) Not everyone's a genius you know :)
On Wed, 12 Mar 1997, Steve wrote: > > I set my system shell to zsh as well, and replaced all the /bin/bash in > > /etc/passwd to /usr/bin/zsh, but when I tried to move /bin/sh to point to > > /usr/bin/zsh, all of the /etc/init.d/* scripts blew up. > > If those scripts actually require bash then why isn't the first line > #!/bin/bash? Is this a bug, or is it written in stone that /bin/sh and > /bin/bash are equivalent? > > >
