On 30/06/2008, Dennis Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 3:33 PM, Cedric Blancher
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On 30/06/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> Dennis,
> >>
> >>
> >> > With a stock out of the box OpenSolaris install I installed Studio 12
> and ksh93
> >>
> >
> > You don't need to install ksh93 on OpenSolaris. It's already
> > preinstalled as /bin/sh.
>
>
> I think that was a *wrong* thing to do and thus I manually install the
> shells that I want as I see fit. I pretty much expect that the default
> shell in Solaris should be a statically linked binary such that I can
> lose nearly everything and still have a working shell :
>
> $ ls -lapin /sbin/sh
> 952 -r-xr-xr-x 2 0 0 239348 Mar 9 2006 /sbin/sh
> $ file /sbin/sh
> /sbin/sh: ELF 32-bit LSB executable 80386 Version 1, statically
> linked, stripped
>
> I KNOW that Solaris 10 is a different beast from previous editions.
> Solaris 10 is different how? Solaris 10 has a default Bourne Shell
> /sbin/sh that is not statically linked anymore. This was done
> intentionally when the single/multi threaded process model was unified
> and the statically linked libc was removed. Solaris 10 commands in
> /sbin should only link with things in /lib. There are symlinks in
> /usr/lib to /lib for some libraries for backwards compatibility
> reasons. In fact, Solaris 10 is so smart that both su and login will
> fall back to /sbin/sh if the shell you specify in /etc/passwd for root
> can not be executed for some reason. What I am saying here is that you
> can change root's shell in Solaris 10 and still sleep well at night.
>
> I don't know what OpenSolaris 200805 does in such events.
So what?
ldd /usr/bin/i86/ksh93 | grep usr/
libshell.so.1 => /usr/lib/libshell.so.1
libcmd.so.1 => /usr/lib/libcmd.so.1
libdll.so.1 => /usr/lib/libdll.so.1
libast.so.1 => /usr/lib/libast.so.1
Submit a bug to get all 4 libs relocated to /lib and done.
defect.opensolaris.org is your friend :)
Cedric
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Cedric Blancher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Institute Pasteur
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