From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 28 14:45:27 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AE3316A4BF for ; Thu, 28 Aug 2003 14:45:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B39E43FF7 for ; Thu, 28 Aug 2003 14:45:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) id h7SLjOQL052248; Thu, 28 Aug 2003 16:45:24 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 16:45:24 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Marc Wiz Message-ID: <20030828214523.GF29750@dan.emsphone.com> References: <1671561231.20280829005225@mail.ru> <20030828213345.GD80772@christabel.starbreaker.net> <20030828213640.GI6312@freshaire.wiz.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030828213640.GI6312@freshaire.wiz.com> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Necessary code or trash? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 21:45:27 -0000 In the last episode (Aug 28), Marc Wiz said: > Sticking with /bin/sh is a good idea. > > What I have done is build a static version of bash and put it /bin > > I changed root's shell to /bin/bash and run just fine. > > Has anyone noticed what a pain it is to build bash statically and > install it in /bin? I don't use bash, but the bash2 port Makefile looks like it builds a static binary by default: CONFIGURE_ENV= LDFLAGS=-static -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com