From owner-freebsd-current Wed Oct 28 07:05:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA08152 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 28 Oct 1998 07:05:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hschpt06.hou.ucarb.com (hschpt06.hou.ucarb.com [144.68.7.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA08147 for ; Wed, 28 Oct 1998 07:05:31 -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 JAA23194; Wed, 28 Oct 1998 09:02:57 -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: <363658A9.FAD19060@gorean.org> Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 09:02:57 -0600 (CST) From: Mike Nguyen To: Studded , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Changing sh for compatibility sake Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 27-Oct-98 Studded uttered: > Mike Nguyen wrote: >> >> 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. > > Do you have a URL for this? I'd love to give ksh a try. Doug, I got ksh93 from http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/reuse/ It's statically linked so I can run it in single-user (and therefore as root's shell). Downside is that it's about twice as big as /bin/sh, and it isn't freeware (free for non-commercial use). Otherwise it's very nice. I think I got this URL (or it's predecessor, before the AT&T/Lucent split) from the -current list a long whiles back. It's the so called 'astkit'. For some reason, the BSDi binaries weren't at www.kornshell.com. What you want is the ast-base-98, which has binaries only for BSDi. I don't know what the difference is between that and ast-base-97, which is what is available for all other platforms. Mike. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Nguyen - UNIX Sysadmin and Geek Pager (800) SKY-8888 pin# 1138368 or 1138368@skytel.com Your lucky number is 3552664958674928. Watch for it everywhere. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message