[gentoo-user] Re: Dash as /bin/sh?

[Harm Geerts <harmgeerts@home.nl>]

On Friday 01 September 2006 16:05, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Sep 2006 12:03:35 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > I saw no errors, so they are certainly WFM compliant :)
>
> Or not. The boot process worked fine, but some scripts started failing
> once the desktop was working. The first, somewhat appropriately, was
> sux. It works from a VC but errors out in an xterm with
>
> exec: 1: -l: not found
>
> I tried ash, only a few K larger than dash. This gave the same speed
> improvement and the same errors :(

You can force sux to use bash.
Just replace the first line in /usr/bin/sux with "#!/bin/bash" 

You'd have to do the same for all scripts that depend on bash functionality.

Speaking of which, you probably should see the shell used in the scripts from 
the sys-apps/baselayout package. All shell scripts use /bin/bash and 
not /bin/sh.

So linking (d)ash as the default shell doesn't nearly have the impact you'd 
like it to have.
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