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Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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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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So that is my problem. "slap-dashedness" ;-) LOL I always wondered |
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why I could screw something up. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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P. S. Read a LOT of humor in that. |
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