From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MrkP3-00058M-Vk for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 27 Sep 2009 03:26:26 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 946AFE07BC; Sun, 27 Sep 2009 03:26:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qy0-f191.google.com (mail-qy0-f191.google.com [209.85.221.191]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F2ADE07BC for ; Sun, 27 Sep 2009 03:26:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qyk29 with SMTP id 29so2787385qyk.32 for ; Sat, 26 Sep 2009 20:26:24 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :x-enigmail-version:content-type; bh=++RXw6eMmJQuXvlHjWR7D3IpXclScfMdtGNJgZOLQxg=; b=HyFzZeFPpYdUgjkQKec62fk1ZtNiSFqqzKrKYucMgUK9D7lKnDmQbLnucse6hnQc/9 f17tWt1y5/hsdrzKOOL7hSYwzonOp93Jmz05A5b+PrdDxiF4PQwLf5MmKq+GpazcWcCI gCDsKtYV0PHQGVXMZOFsvalIW/udh5XrbvXu8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type; b=kSZzK8AUEb2ZmpmClqEBou+cqvjQzZMLreGip8pntEUUmpwEPcvYqiHkc7ApACj6iA X2I8/8FpVxqkDD6kTU/OQ29H5+AqnqiRm3w2RSMWUGjESF4m7+J3l7Tdvk74csgxyl1+ ksCVtqgkUDTvByGSLoWTLEvLDsr9nH3l2TCbs= Received: by 10.224.40.11 with SMTP id i11mr1659824qae.53.1254021984086; Sat, 26 Sep 2009 20:26:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.0.132? ([71.88.98.35]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 21sm760452qyk.8.2009.09.26.20.26.23 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 26 Sep 2009 20:26:23 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4ABEDB47.9000404@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2009 23:25:59 -0400 From: Eric Martin User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20090926) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: runlevels and service list References: <1253450052.10837.119.camel@rattus> <20090920205429.1a914d0f@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> <4AB68B54.6010505@gmail.com> <200909202210.12139.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <4AB6A3DA.1080506@gmail.com> <4AB6CB7C.6010409@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig0580AC81700F714BED5BF3B0" X-Archives-Salt: b56942bd-fe66-44d2-9003-86999379fe9f X-Archives-Hash: b6eddd6c699b2f41a823aeb035539dc3 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig0580AC81700F714BED5BF3B0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable walt wrote: > On 09/20/2009 05:40 PM, Dale wrote: >> walt wrote: >>> In linux bash is the default shell (even sh is a symlink to bash) >>> but in >>> other OS's other default shells prevail. > > Okay, okay, Alan, you're right, I have not tried every linux distro > out there, > but when I was a linux noob I tried every one I could find. Back then > that was > Debian, SuSe, Red Hat, Mandrake (since morphed into something else), > and very > recently Ubuntu, just to see what all the fuss was about. (I'm > sticking with > gentoo.) > > All of those use(d) bash as the default shell, but may have switched > while I > wasn't looking. Bash *appears* to be the official shell of GNU, as > its home > page is hosted there: http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/ > > BTW, all of the above distros including gentoo are officially > un-endorsed by > GNU: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/common-distros.html Actually, /bin/bash is a symlink -> /bin/dash on Ubuntu so dash (Debian ash) is the default shell on Ubuntu (and either dash or ash is on Debian). I found that out the hard way when I was scripting and some bash stuff wouldn't work properly. --=20 Eric Martin D1C4 086E DBB5 C18E 6FDA B215 6A25 7174 A941 3B9F --------------enig0580AC81700F714BED5BF3B0 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJKvttYAAoJEGoJzenm00C5YDEP+wYfGSLGGh2qUPBIx6iK7Spw Itk9sCJbGe17AAO7KCYCXBjdSB35Dn+HGhSn4intbaa2BylUY2ubvb79wAqrXgJA 95RWDJ20Lcc6XunU36JCj+6l6UI1/vIFya36Uf+aMsLJBBEdWeK1OY7RJP6tV0VV +XWRGSkNjBdCwiLgUQgxm6sJ3ETCNevEek0hn7nCqQksKZHxjg0t+1Bv8Ewk/qJM uaGUJNTi8OpSfd8KplOEYq+ZOGH5Ke036JUhXQx+LBxgc9taghmM/EWXsK4+KaDT zVAunTLglg/2/w2gFRf+E1rGYM9w/DZzccFPJ72SHOHbkzYDL4KVFEFksqFSWsVe sP55bj4/OnT6xXqAAKv1FlhQIJMvDTxvh5itlSxvjJ5P6orAAL4fdUjb/HNjrON8 ks8GlgdfrKtMIMcpOAGZhpODzwEfLtT6QpxRzHXomdyWGN14XWMW2qtZbzdGsXWt NFPSgFPhsdSvsG20ycdxGkZG/Cmp3Cr1h7luNhI/GNPePuXCzBQCUnLlbmwfrFJC j4vE6d02RuOG+GC11uuF80Ff87moA8B5vpTm2DJs2wmCQeFwToHomHqezmBzL9gc zJv1jgI6TMKnogqhubAhfWECjP2eKfYoioWfQJXucffCzG3IxAML3BpjWX1USVXg TW3iri0muh33OFX3UjBS =iUWl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig0580AC81700F714BED5BF3B0--