From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 28 12:34: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from news-ma.rhein-neckar.de (news-ma.rhein-neckar.de [193.197.90.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08A3215366 for ; Fri, 28 May 1999 12:34:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de) Received: from mips.rhein-neckar.de (uucp@localhost) by news-ma.rhein-neckar.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with bsmtp id VAA15184 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 28 May 1999 21:33:57 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de) Received: by mips.rhein-neckar.de id m10nQQx-000WyTC (Debian Smail-3.2.0.101 1997-Dec-17 #2); Fri, 28 May 1999 19:28:39 +0200 (CEST) From: naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber) Subject: Re: why we don't mess with root's shell: Re: Need help with Root shell? Date: 28 May 1999 19:28:36 +0200 Message-ID: <7imjo4$kef$1@mips.rhein-neckar.de> References: <3.0.5.32.19990526135641.007c09f0@devrycols.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG James A. Mutter wrote: > If noone's mentioned this yet, /bin/bash is a "linux only" thing. > It doesn't exist on FreeBSD, it doesn't exist on NetBSD, it doesn't exist > on OpenBSD. > It doesn't exist on _any_ Sun box, it doesn't exist on _any_ IBM box, it > doesn't exist on _any_ Digital box. Unless the sysadmin set it up in this way. > To put it bluntly, it doesn't exist anywhere but Linux. > That's what they get for not following standards! What's non-standard about it? A typical Linux distribution uses bash as its /bin/sh, so it's only natural to include /bin/bash as a hard link. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de carpe librum: books 'n' reviews To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message