[4850] in bugtraq
Re: Solaris 2.5 syslog startup failure
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brad Powell)
Thu Jul 3 13:14:43 1997
Date: Thu, 3 Jul 1997 07:28:37 -0700
Reply-To: Brad Powell <brad.powell@WEST.SUN.COM>
From: Brad Powell <brad.powell@WEST.SUN.COM>
X-To: lpb@APOCALYPSE.ORG
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
Lauren writes:
>The file /etc/init.d/syslog in Solaris 2.5.1 (Sparc version, latest
>patch set), does not identify which shell should execute it.
>If root
is set to use csh (instead of sh or ksh), syslog will fail to start.
Whoa here. I agree its a bug but be *extreamly* shy about using anything
except /sbin/sh for root's shell.. Why? well the files in /sbin are different
than /usr/bin for a reason. They are -statically linked- Unless you have
a statically linked version of csh you had better think twice about using
it for roots shell. The first time you can't mount /usr(/lib) because of
a problem and need to boot single user mode to fix it, you will be glad
you have a static version of the shell.
Brad
