[gentoo-user] Re: runlevels and service list

[Jonathan Callen]

Eric Martin wrote:
> Actually, /bin/bash is a symlink -> /bin/dash on Ubuntu so dash (Debian
> ash) is the default shell on Ubuntu (and either dash or ash is on
> Debian).  I found that out the hard way when I was scripting and some
> bash stuff wouldn't work properly.
>

No, /bin/bash is *always* bash on Ubuntu.  You are probably thinking of
/bin/sh, which is required to be a POSIX-compliant shell, such as dash
or bash.  On Ubuntu systems, /bin/sh is now provided by dash (by
default).  Debian also changed to using dash as /bin/sh fairly recently.

-- 
Jonathan