W.Kenworthy wrote: > On Mon, 2008-10-13 at 22:21 -0400, Joel Newkirk wrote: >> On Tue, 14 Oct 2008 12:29:59 +1100, "Sarton O'Brien" >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> On Tuesday 14 October 2008 12:17:06 Joel Newkirk wrote: >>>> On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 23:21:18 +0200, Fox Mulder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> wrote: >>>>> If you use bash on OM than do it the same way how it is done in a >>> normal >>>>> linux pc. You must "export HISTFILESIZE=1000" to set the number of >>> lines >>>>> saved to 1000. Just put this command in an adequate file to be >>> executed >>>>> at start like profile or bashrc. >>>>> >>>>> Ciao, >>>>> Rainer >>>> Indeed, but how then do I tell it to use bash instead of ash for >>> Terminal >>>> and ssh? >>> vi /etc/passwd? >>> >>> Sarton >> (Ok, I'll go sit in the corner for five minutes wearing the stupid hat... >> I already knew that from desktop/server context but for some reason my >> brain just didn't make the connection...) >> >> Thanks. >> >> j >> > be aware that doing this used to break X and other things during boot-up > - not sure why but "funny things happened ..." > > Only work around I found was to log in as usual, and type "bash" at the > command prompt. > > Be interesting to see if this is still the case ...
The busybox-bash doesn't support all features the real bash does why i installed the bash from the repository. I only did this with 2007.2 and it works flawless. I didn't try it with 2008.9 because i only use debian on my neo at the monent. To use bash i only had to edit passwd and nothing else. Ciao, Rainer _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community