[LINK] Ease of use and Linux for the Rest of Us

[hartr at interweft.com.au]

On 24 Nov, Craig Sanders wrote:

> on solaris boxes (which default to sh or ksh), i just install GNU bash
> in /usr/local/bin and set the shell to bash for my 'cas' account, and
> remember to run "exec bash" as the very first command when i log in as
> 'root' (there are differences between bourne sh and bash that can make
> it dangerous to change root's shell, could result in broken cron jobs
> etc)

Oooh - yes!

I once spent an 'interesting' weekend afternoon recovering a DEC Ultrix
box onto which I had installed (in a moment of enthusiasm winning over
healthy scepticism) bash as a replacement for the Bourne shell - the box
would not boot! After a discussion with DEC support about how to
retrieve the situation which yielded nothing sensible aparft from
reinstall, I realised that 'sh' was on the installation disks - and I
was able to get far enough into the installation to mount the hard
disks, move bash and copy 'sh' ... a procedure I then wrote up for DEC's
knowledgebase!

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