From owner-freebsd-current Tue Oct 27 12:20:29 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA20798 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 27 Oct 1998 12:20:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hschpt06.hou.ucarb.com ([144.68.7.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA20785 for ; Tue, 27 Oct 1998 12:20:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from miker@hschpt06.hou.ucarb.com) Received: (from miker@localhost) by hschpt06.hou.ucarb.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA21052; Tue, 27 Oct 1998 14:19:27 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from mikenguyen@sprintmail.com) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19981027135403.00fe7a3c@207.227.119.2> Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 14:19:27 -0600 (CST) From: Mike Nguyen To: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" Subject: Re: Changing sh for compatibility sake Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, Brian Feldman Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 27-Oct-98 Jeffrey J. Mountin uttered: > At 07:31 AM 10/27/98 -0500, Brian Feldman wrote: >>Let me repeat this once more: not a SINGLE script breaks with pdksh! > > Agreed, but on one of lists someone pointed out some other issues with > pdksh. This was quite a while back on -isp or -security. > > Korn is supposed to 100% bourne compatible. > > Coming from BSDi to FBSD, I was rather put out that I needed to install it. > 8-) First thing I do when I install a new FreeBSD box is install the BSDi ksh binaries from the AT&T software reuse website as /bin/ksh. A real ksh93, no less. I haven't had the guts to replace /bin/sh with it yet (though the man page does have a toggle to display either as sh(1) or ksh(1)). Mike. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Nguyen - UNIX Sysadmin and Geek Pager (800) SKY-8888 pin# 1138368 or 1138368@skytel.com "Heisenberg may have slept here" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message