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On Monday 21 September 2009 02:11:51 walt wrote: |
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> On 09/20/2009 02:51 PM, Dale wrote: |
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> > Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> >> The reason you don't see bash in ps is because you are not running bash. |
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> >> I do, but you obviously don't. What shell does root use per /etc/passwd? |
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> > This one: |
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> > root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash |
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> > Looks like bash. ;-) I assume this is the default because I have never |
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> > changed this file. Is there something screwy with my system? |
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> In linux bash is the default shell (even sh is a symlink to bash) but in |
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> other OS's other default shells prevail. |
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Correction: |
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In *Gentoo* it is the default shell. A distro is free to choose whatever |
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default shell it feels like, as is any other OS. There are distros out there |
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that do not default to bash. |
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You simply cannot make a blanket statement like "In linux bash is the default |
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shell" as it's simply not true. |
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Let's be accurate when we make statements, OK? If devs wrote code like that it |
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would not run, and if you typed commands with that level of slap-dashedness |
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they would frequently fail. |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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