On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 04:47:32PM +0100, Gaz Wilson wrote: > 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?
well, I guess the scripts should specify 'bash' when they want to use 'bash' functionality (not /bin/sh) but I guess enrico will fix that soon ... TIA, Herbert > -- > / 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 > [email protected] > http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver _______________________________________________ Vserver mailing list [email protected] http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver
