Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 12:16:57 +1000 From: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org> To: Trent Nelson <nelsont@wa.switch.aust.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Linux compatibility problem. Message-ID: <20010831121657.S29422@k7.mavetju.org> In-Reply-To: <20010831095244.N1562@freebsd06.udt>; from nelsont@wa.switch.aust.com on Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 09:52:44AM %2B0800 References: <20010831095244.N1562@freebsd06.udt>
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On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 09:52:44AM +0800, Trent Nelson wrote:
> If I've invoked /compat/linux/bin/bash and attempt to run a shell
> script that has "#!/bin/sh" as its first line, the FreeBSD /bin/sh
> seems to get called as the interpreter - as opposed to
> /compat/linux/bin/sh. Is this correct?
Yups. Shell scripts are not linux-programs :-)
> This is breaking a Linux installation script I'm working with as its
> doing a `uname -r' and getting "4.3-RELEASE" instead of "2.2.14".
> I'm invoking the /compat/linux/bin/bash shell in this instance and
> working with that.
Put /usr/compat/linux/bin as first line in your PATH and this should
solve it. Same for /usr/compat/linux/sbin, usr/bin etc.
[~] edwin@k7>export PATH=/usr/compat/linux/bin:$PATH
[~] edwin@k7>uname -a
Linux k7.mavetju.org 2.2.12 FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE #7: Sun Aug 19 21:49:05 EST 2001
edwin@k i386 unknown
[~] edwin@k7>uname -r
2.2.12
Edwin
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