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From: brian@shift.utell.net (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: How can I make ksh as a default shell?
Date: 3 Jun 1997 11:33:30 GMT
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In article <33934182.9FC649DB@jcis.com>,
"Rober J. Lee" <bobl@jcis.com> writes:
> I checked out my .profile and rc scripts. Every scripts run fine with
> ksh. Then I tried a quick and dirty way by moving ksh to /bin and
> renamed the original sh as xsh and ksh as sh. When I reboot, however, I
> am getting the error message "Couldn't open /usr/libexe/ld.so. Enter
> pathname of shell or RETURN for sh:". If I enter /bin/xsh, it will find
> the original sh, but in a single user mode. In this single user mode, if
> I try to change the names back, then I get the read-only mode error
> message.
>
> So I need two answers. First is how can I restore this, so that I can go
> back to the original configuration (without porting the entire BSD
> again!). Second question is how can I make ksh as a default shell and an
> only shell (I have a situation that I can't have sh or csh in the
> system. Don't ask me why!) in the system.
>
> Thanks for the kind helps.
To recover, do the following:
# mount -u -t nonfs -a
# cd /bin
# mv xsh sh
# exit
You must build ksh as a static binary - that is, on the load line
in your make file, include the "-static" switch.
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.org> <brian@freebsd.org>
<http://www.awfulhak.org>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !