Joerg Schilling wrote: > Roland Mainz <roland.mainz at nrubsig.org> wrote: > > Casper.Dik at sun.com wrote: > > > > > > >I don't know that I can argue for ksh93 versus any other shell, > > > >but adding /sbin/ksh93 at least gives us one modern, more feature-rich > > > >alternative to the bourne shell (/sbin/sh), for use as the root shell, > > > >in JumpStart scripts, or in single-user mode, when dealing with > > > >filesystem > > > >problems. > > > > > > I don't think that's a strong enough reason: > > > > > > - you can already use any shell as root shell; is /usr isn't > > > mounted /sbin/sh is used instead. > > > > Do you mean replacing "root"'s login shell in /etc/passwd with any shell > > ? Where is this documented (AFAIK the recommentation over all the years > > was "... don't do that. Never. Don't touch it or your system will > > explode (sooner or later) ...") ? > > If you really like to put ksh93 into / you would need to have extra hooks for > all needed shared libs in /lib. Dou you really like to do this?
What do you mean with "extra hooks" ? ---- Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) roland.mainz at nrubsig.org \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 7950090 (;O/ \/ \O;)
