Bryan> Simple suggestion: all Debian install scripts require Bryan> /bin/bash. They never refer to /bin/sh. Especially as in, "#! Bryan> /bin/sh"
Bryan> Or if you don't like bash, ash. If not ash, Bryan> csh. busybox. perl. Something. Just specify it and be done with Bryan> it. And demand that shell be installed for the install scripts Bryan> to run. But that defeats the reason why people do change the link in the first place : ash is faster than bash, someone might have something like ash-686 which is even faster. I am also biased: kronstadt:~$ file /bin/sh /bin/sh: symbolic link to /etc/alternatives/sh kronstadt:~$ file /etc/alternatives/sh /etc/alternatives/sh: symbolic link to /bin/ash kronstadt:~$ (I installed my own local alternative for this). -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. GPG: 433BA087 9C0F 194F 203A 63F7 B1B8 6E5A 8CA3 27DB 433B A087 EngSoc adopts market economy: cheap is wasteful, efficient is expensive. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
