From: Steven L Baur <steve@miranova.com>
To: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu
Subject: Re: Zsh as /bin/sh on Linux?
Date: 18 Jan 1996 13:45:35 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2hgxt2n40.fsf@miranova.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: jepler@herbie.unl.edu's message of 18 Jan 1996 13:22:36 -0800
>>>>> "Jeff" == Jeff "Obik" Epler <jepler@herbie.unl.edu> writes:
Jeff> A bigger problem (IMO) than worrying about odd sh compatibilities when
Jeff> using (trying to use) zsh as /bin/sh under Linux, is all the
Jeff> dependancies on Bash featurisms, since bash is the /bin/sh on most
Jeff> Linux systems.
Jeff> No, I don't know any particulars -- I've just heard the folks on IRC
Jeff> bitch from time to time that this-and-such package (written on Linux)
Jeff> says #!/bin/sh and needs bash.
Jeff> OTOH, I've been using zsh (dynamically linked, but in /sbin) as root's
Jeff> shell for quite some time. Since the /bin/sh that account had
Jeff> formerly was also dynamically linked, I don't feel like I lost any
Jeff> safety net...
Thanks for all the responses. I'd love to run a vanilla, small, real
sh as /bin/sh, but that does not appear to be an option. Replacing
bash with zsh as a root login sounds feasible, although I'm going to
replace beta13 with the beta13-hzoli12 version before I attempt that
switch.
Regards,
--
steve@miranova.com baur
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1996-01-18 22:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-01-18 19:24 Steven L Baur
1996-01-18 20:18 ` Christopher White
1996-01-18 20:38 ` Jari Kokko
1996-01-18 20:41 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1996-01-18 21:22 ` Jeff "Obik" Epler
1996-01-18 21:45 ` Steven L Baur [this message]
1996-01-19 11:32 ` Zoltan Hidvegi
1996-01-19 2:51 ` Tim Pickett
1996-01-19 11:08 ` Zoltan Hidvegi
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