Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2001 16:27:58 +1000 From: Greg Black <gjb@gbch.net> To: Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.pp.ru> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: compiling /bin/sh with builtin 'test' Message-ID: <nospam-1005978478.57129@bambi.gbch.net> In-Reply-To: <20011117012056.A320@grosbein.pp.ru> of Sat, 17 Nov 2001 01:20:56 %2B0700 References: <20011117012056.A320@grosbein.pp.ru>
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Eugene Grosbein wrote: | So I'm thinking about recompiling /bin/sh with 'test' as builtin. | Perhaps, I could grab sources of /bin/sh from recent STABLE. | I did that for date(1) (I needed 'date -j' that does not work for 4.0) | and new 'date' works fine. Btw, I cannot just upgrade machine for | some extraneous reasons. | | Did somebody try that? Any caveats? | It is remote production system and I'm afraid if this will render my system | unbootable, it will be very black day for me. Just try it. Install it with a different name and test it out. When you're happy with it, install it as /bin/sh. Easy peasy. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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