On Wed, Aug 26, 1998 at 08:46:38AM +0200, Torsten Hilbrich wrote: > I recently installed an other shell than bash as /bin/sh (ash > precisly) just to test the systems behaviour and noticed that some > scripts stopped working correctly. For example, /etc/init.d/rcS had > problems executing some scripts (e.g., loading the keymap). I changed > it to be #!/bin/bash instead of #!/bin/sh.
This is perhaps my only gripe against Debian. I too would like to link /bin/sh to /bin/ash, but I ran into too many script problems, and I don't want to change all of them to use /bin/bash. A script that calls /bin/sh should ONLY use "standard" /bin/sh functions, and not the extra features presented by /bin/bash. I've heard of folks getting faster boot times when they link /bin/sh to /bin/ash instead of bash. I think bash is nice and it's good to use its extra features, but for simplicity's sake, start the script out as #!/bin/bash. <shrug>
