From: Jonathan Callen <abcd@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: runlevels and service list
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2009 01:00:19 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4ABEF163.50801@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4ABEDB47.9000404@gmail.com>
Eric Martin wrote:
> 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.
>
No, /bin/bash is *always* bash on Ubuntu. You are probably thinking of
/bin/sh, which is required to be a POSIX-compliant shell, such as dash
or bash. On Ubuntu systems, /bin/sh is now provided by dash (by
default). Debian also changed to using dash as /bin/sh fairly recently.
--
Jonathan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-27 5:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-20 12:34 [gentoo-user] runlevels and service list William Kenworthy
2009-09-20 12:40 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2009-09-20 12:50 ` William Kenworthy
2009-09-20 13:18 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-09-20 16:33 ` Neil Bothwick
2009-09-20 18:45 ` Philip Webb
2009-09-20 18:51 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2009-09-20 19:54 ` Neil Bothwick
2009-09-20 20:06 ` Dale
2009-09-20 20:10 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-09-20 21:51 ` Dale
2009-09-21 0:11 ` walt
2009-09-21 0:37 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-09-21 0:45 ` Dale
2009-09-21 0:40 ` Dale
2009-09-21 2:51 ` walt
2009-09-27 3:25 ` Eric Martin
2009-09-27 5:00 ` Jonathan Callen [this message]
2009-09-21 14:37 ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2009-09-20 22:01 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2009-09-20 23:50 ` Neil Bothwick
2009-09-21 0:41 ` Dale
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