On Wed, 6 Apr 2005, Gaz Wilson wrote: > > Hi! > > Just a short note to let you know that under some circumstances, Debian > offers for you to link /bin/sh to a shell called dash, which is supposed > to be a faster, smaller bash. Unfortunately dash is incompatible with > some of the vserver scripts - most notably vserver-copy breaks terribly > when /bin/sh is symlinked to dash. >
Further reading suggests that this may become more of an issue in the future as it seems sh is being migrated to be POSIX 1003.2 and 1003.2a complient, which may mean that dash replaces bash as the default shell in distrobutions in the future? -- / Gary Wilson, aka dragon/dragonlord/dragonv480 \ .'(_.------. e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSN: dragonv480 .------._)`. < _ | Skype:dragonv480 ICQ:342070475 AIM:dragonv480 | _ > `.( `------' w: http://volvo480.northernscum.org.uk `------' ).' \ w: http://www.northernscum.org.uk / _______________________________________________ Vserver mailing list Vserver@list.linux-vserver.org http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver
