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 1Mrls2-0006EO-4n for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 27 Sep 2009 05:00:26 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B3ADDE0630; Sun, 27 Sep 2009 05:00:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E1B2E0630 for ; Sun, 27 Sep 2009 05:00:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (pool-173-71-201-218.clppva.fios.verizon.net [173.71.201.218]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A71B676C8 for ; Sun, 27 Sep 2009 05:00:22 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4ABEF163.50801@gentoo.org> Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2009 01:00:19 -0400 From: Jonathan Callen User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20090902) 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: [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> <4ABEDB47.9000404@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4ABEDB47.9000404@gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 4ce02d8b-06f3-413d-816f-78fb32bfea2a X-Archives-Hash: ffbb5436649d5b83bb45a12b6b4728f3 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