On 02/01/12 10:30, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > >> ... executed with /bin/sh which is not bash by default. > > Understood; but why does the installer put these and no .dashrc?
The shell you run interactively (specified per-user in /etc/passwd) is usually bash, because it's more friendly for interactive use. Dash is smaller and lighter, and chosen presumably for that reason to run most of the system scripts, which use /bin/sh explicitly. /bin/sh used to be bash - Ubuntu switched first, I think - leading to all sorts of interesting bugs with bash-specific features in scripts ... Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f00e07e.1090...@walnut.gen.nz
