Re: Re: how to reinstall bash

2014-09-13 Thread lina
Thanks for your scrupulous attitude. $ ls -l /bin/sh /bin/bash /bin/dash -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1029624 Aug 22 05:15 /bin/bash -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 117176 Jan 10 2014 /bin/dash lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Sep 13 17:48 /bin/sh -> /bin/bash Now it is sane, the mistake came at the first place

Re: Re: how to reinstall bash

2014-09-13 Thread Clive Standbridge
> Done by following the link: > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1618902 > namely, > > 1] ln -sf /bin/sh /bin/bash That is an unfortunate mistake; the link name and target are the wrong way round. It will make /bin/bash into a symbolic link when it should be an ELF binary. > 2] apt-get i