There are a lot of tools depending on bash. Including virusscanners and
spamfilters.
The openCSW bash installs into another directory then the "real"/old bash.
How can you change the old bash with the openCSW bash?
I saw that solaris 11.2 supports a lot of (old) sparc hardware. And most of
the ever produced X86 servers. Supportcontracts are reasonable priced i
think. Aspecialy in this situation...
On 6 oktober 2014 19:28:00 David Brodbeck <[email protected]> wrote:
On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 8:12 AM, Alan Coopersmith <
[email protected]> wrote:
> On 10/ 2/14 07:00 AM, Brandon Hume wrote:
>
>> On many (most? all?) Linuxes, /bin/sh *is* /bin/bash.
>>
>
> Many, but not all - the Debian family and some others use a lighter weight,
> POSIX compatible shell instead, dash, the Debian Almquist Shell; and many
> embedded distros use BusyBox instead.
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almquist_shell
> http://lwn.net/Articles/343924/
A big driver of this was faster boot, since boot scripts run on /bin/sh.
On some systems the startup time for all those bash processes was a
considerable portion of the total boot time.
Note: It's not enough to make sure no CGI scripts are being run with
/bin/bash. You also need to make sure no bash processes are being launched
by other scripts, since many scripting languages launch a shell to run
external commands. Unless the environment is explicitly cleared these are
likely to inherit the environment of the calling process, with all the
nasties in it.
--
D. Brodbeck
System Administrator, Linguistics
University of Washington
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