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Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 19:45:20 -0500
From: Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>
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Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Monday 21 September 2009 02:11:51 walt wrote:
>   
>> On 09/20/2009 02:51 PM, Dale wrote:
>>     
>>> Alan McKinnon wrote:
>>>       
>>>> The reason you don't see bash in ps is because you are not running bash.
>>>> I do, but you obviously don't. What shell does root use per /etc/passwd?
>>>>         
>>> This one:
>>>
>>> root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash
>>>
>>> Looks like bash.  ;-)  I assume this is the default because I have never
>>> changed this file.  Is there something screwy with my system?
>>>       
>> In linux bash is the default shell (even sh is a symlink to bash) but in
>> other OS's other default shells prevail.
>>     
>
> Correction:
>
> In *Gentoo* it is the default shell. A distro is free to choose whatever 
> default shell it feels like, as is any other OS. There are distros out there 
> that do not default to bash.
>
> You simply cannot make a blanket statement like "In linux bash is the default 
> shell" as it's simply not true.
>
> Let's be accurate when we make statements, OK? If devs wrote code like that it 
> would not run, and if you typed commands with that level of slap-dashedness 
> they would frequently fail.
>
>
>   

So that is my problem.  "slap-dashedness"  ;-)  LOL  I always wondered
why I could screw something up. 

Dale

:-)  :-) 

P. S.  Read a LOT of humor in that.