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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!news.gtn.com!knobel.gun.de!usenet From: andreas@knobel.gun.de (Andreas Klemm) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Is replacing /bin/sh with bash recommended? Date: 13 Apr 1996 12:54:51 GMT Lines: 43 Message-ID: <4ko86r$1qg@knobel.gun.de> References: <4ih5qb$lae@blackice.winternet.com> <4ipkqm$t6h@adv.iaehv.nl> <4j0tp5$shj@calypso.bns.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: knobel.gun.de X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.5 In article <4j0tp5$shj@calypso.bns.com.au>, mike@calypso.bns.com.au (Michael Talbot-Wilson) writes: >devet@adv.IAEhv.nl (Arjan de Vet) writes: > >>At least on 2.0.5 I still had to use bash 1.14 to run some shell scripts >>from INN 1.4: /bin/sh would give very strange errors, even infinite loops >>if I remember correctly. Earlier /bin/sh versions were much worse breaking >>even more scripts (Pnews from trn), so I just replaced /bin/sh with bash >>on older FreeBSD versions. > >You remind me that I had similar problems compiling INN and strn. Perhaps >because they weren't official FreeBSD "ports". Yes, they were fixed by >switching to bash. Let's be serious ... I never had such problems and if there were some problems, why didn't you report them earlier. BTW, we have Mid of April and FreeBSD-2.1 and -stable version as well as -current versions are out. Perhaps you should upgrade your os via sup or CTM, do a make world and recompile the ports, that aren't working correctly ... BTW, I remember Slackware 2.0, where bash 1.14.1 or .2 broke many things in the main Linux System. Inn and cnews scripts didn't work well. You had to wit for another new bash version ... So bash doesn't always fix your problems ... And the greatest Problem with bash is: new version -> possibly new bugs ... So then ... better fix ash _if_ the is an error involved with it, to get a stabel version, instead of taking a shell, where every now and then a new version gets out, which of course many people like to get ... But who can make sure, that is doesn't break things ... Better end of discussion ... people, you can grab your loveliest 'toy' out of ports ... This is the place for additional software. I don't want another Linux based on a FreeBSD kernel, period. -- andreas@knobel.gun.de /\/\___ Wiechers & Partner Datentechnik GmbH Andreas Klemm ___/\/\/ $$ Support Unix - aklemm@wup.de $$ pgp p-key http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/~bal/pks-toplev.html >>> powered by <<< ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/Printing/aps-491.tgz >>> FreeBSD <<<