[geeks] Some ancient history to get lost in...

[Phil Stracchino]

On 11/03/11 15:21, Sandwich Maker wrote:
> " From: Phil Stracchino <alaric at metrocast.net>
> " The only root shell substitution I have ever made is /bin/bash for
> " /bin/sh on Solaris, because bash will run everything sh will and I find
> " it a lot more usable.  And I can spare the little bit of extra memory.
> 
> i'm more of a ksh partisan, having used it since ksh86 was new, but
> i've never tried to change root's shell.  yes, ksh like bash runs
> everything sh can, but -not-exactly- the same -way-.  there are a few
> small differences in interpretation and/or parsing...  ksh docs used
> to a couple of sh 'bugs' they'd 'corrected'.  my approach was to
> either have root's .profile exec the shell i wanted, or make a
> -second- root user - say kroot - with my shell of choice.

Side comment:  file under "/bin/sh -> bash considered harmful"

I recently updated OpenFire on my Solaris 10 box.  OpenFire is a jabberd
written in Java, by coders who know Linux, Windows, and not damn much else.

I couldn't figure out why the new version wouldn't start up ...  until I
went through all the shell scripts.  And facepalmed.

You see, all the scripts ran #!/bin/sh.  And every damn one of'em used
bash-specific syntax.

"...But it's the same thing, isn't it?"


NO.  *SMACK*  IT ISN'T.  *SMACK*


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