[geeks] Thoughts on bash for root

[Kurt Mosiejczuk]

On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:

> Okay, I got curious.  The only statically-linked binaries are: autopush,
> fdisk, jsh, mount, sh, soconfig, su.static, sync, umount, and uname.

> mount/umount make a lot of sense.  Throw ksh in there, and you might have
> enough built-ins to get some recovery work done.  It looks the general
> assumption is that you're screwed unless you can mount something with
> working libs on it (like, the Solaris Software CD).

> So, I guess if you don't have a CD-ROM drive in your system, you're
> screwed.  I'd expected much better from Solaris.  I -know- this wasn't
> always so broken.  When did it change?  2.7 or so?

Looks like it, there's no rant about it in the fixsolaris document for
2.6.  Oh, another wrinkle, fsck isn't even IN /sbin.  It's in /usr/sbin.
So, if you have a separate /usr, you can't even fsck your filesystems
if you are having a problem with /usr.  Dumbness.

--Kurt