Hi Chris, >> I got around the usual problem by doing >> mv /bin/sh /bin/sh.old >> ln -s /usr/bin/zsh /bin/sh > > Not a good idea. > While Solaris 10 did away with statically linked shells and cron > generally uses /usr/bin/bash nowadays, there are still a ton of > scripts scattered around the system that depend on /bin/sh being a > Bourne shell, not zsh, csh or even bash. > Plus, a dynamically linked root shell will render your system unusable > if and when /usr/lib becomes corrupted. > > The mentioned problem is that someone probably simply assumed /bin/sh > to be a renamed bash... Meaning, the script should be fixed, not the > system it is running on be messed with, since that might actually > break the system.
Thanks for the hint. This of course was only a temporary solution to get etoile built. But since this was only onne of many problems a reverted to the original state regarding /bin/sh. Anybody successful with etoile on Solaris recently? Unfortunately I am not such an experienced scripter. Thanks! Regards, Andreas _______________________________________________ Etoile-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/etoile-discuss
