On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 08:23:55PM -0700, Craig Dickson wrote: | Branden Robinson wrote: | | > * if your /bin/sh is ash, you will likely have this problem | | Why would this be the case? I thought all Debian systems (well, I don't | know about pre-Potato versions) had /bin/sh as a symlink pointing to bash. | Wouldn't it sort of be asking for problems to have a non-standard /bin/sh?
A non-standard /bin/sh would be one that isn't POSIX conformant. Watch what happens if I try and remove ash : # apt-get remove ash Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: ash initrd-tools kernel-image-2.4.8-386 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 3 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 22.7MB will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n Abort. # Not a good thing, I still want a kernel ;-). -D
