Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2017 15:56:03 -0500 From: "James B. Byrne" <byrnejb@harte-lyne.ca> To: "Polytropon" <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Variable assignment in sh Message-ID: <a1d3a3abdeaccdbd52cc35b947d8aea0.squirrel@webmail.harte-lyne.ca> In-Reply-To: <20170201211631.a65c3b9b.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <b831bd9e40321e59910ea8913c7a6302.squirrel@webmail.harte-lyne.ca> <20170131161824.a9f1ef46.freebsd@edvax.de> <b553c644fccc211f9658b31cfe65e8a0.squirrel@webmail.harte-lyne.ca> <20170131185103.7f911dfb.freebsd@edvax.de> <5f51e2c3bdb8a20c6a7786c2b345c957.squirrel@webmail.harte-lyne.ca> <20170131200143.00c5e5da.freebsd@edvax.de> <84861d4906923faec222f96580833c2f.squirrel@webmail.harte-lyne.ca> <20170201211631.a65c3b9b.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Wed, February 1, 2017 15:16, Polytropon wrote:
> In a worst case scenario, rely on what the system provides, and
> don't try to override those defaults without good reasons and
> sufficient precaution (like a statically linked /bin/bash for
> example). There is almost nothing worse than a system that
> successfully boots into single user mode, but then surprisingly
> cannot start a shell... ;-)
>
I installed bash-static on all our FreeBSD hosts. I would love to
solely rely on what the base system provides but sadly I have never
encountered a case with any OS where that is true. And rewriting my
admin scripts to sh from bash is a task that I simply do not have time
for at the moment.
Enumerating bash-static along with postfix, sudo, tmux, tree, vim,
etc., that we require for FreeBSD is quite natural and poses no
particular difficulty.
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