On Tue, Jun 15, 1999 at 11:59:31AM -0700, Joe Emenaker wrote: > So... again... I make my annual cry to the package gods: > > Why are the *system-critical* binaries dynamically linked? If you hose your > ld.so, ld-linux, or libc, that breaks login (so there's no way to get into > the system after a reboot), bash (so many shell scripts won't work), ls (so > you can't use 'ls -l' to see which libs the symlinks are pointing to), cp > and mv (so you can't try using different libs), ed (so you can't edit any > files), and mount.
Install the sash package and make sash root's default shell. Sash _is_ a statically linked shell with lot's of built in commands including ls, cd, chmod, chown, mount etc..