[174691] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: update
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Will Yardley)
Thu Sep 25 00:41:28 2014
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 21:41:04 -0700
From: Will Yardley <nanog@veggiechinese.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1409250507380.14735@uplift.swm.pp.se>
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On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 05:11:22AM +0200, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Sep 2014, Jim Popovitch wrote:
>
> > I *did* read that, and it doesn't change anything about what I wrote.
> > Debian didn't make those changes for you...... Debian has never set
> > root's shell to bash, ever. PEBKAC?
>
> I can verify Williams settings on my Debian system that was initially
> installed back in 3.x days or so, probably around 2005 or thereabouts. My
> root shell uses bash and /bin/sh points to bash.
I haven't administered many Debian / Ubuntu systems recently, but I did
during the days of hamm / slink / potato, and my recollection is that
the *default* /bin/sh in 2.x and 3.x was bash, though it was possible to
configure the system to use ash or something lighter weight instead.
Doubt I currently have access to any systems that old, but:
% cat /etc/debian_version
5.0.4
% ls -al /bin/sh
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2009-03-05 16:58 /bin/sh -> bash*
% which dash
dash not found
$ cat /etc/debian_version
5.0.9
$ ls -al /bin/sh
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2010-08-02 12:21 /bin/sh -> bash*
So, I think "never... ever" is maybe not quite correct.
w
