Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 09:02:57 -0600 (CST) From: Mike Nguyen <mikenguyen@sprintmail.com> To: Studded <Studded@gorean.org>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Changing sh for compatibility sake Message-ID: <XFMail.981028090257.mikenguyen@sprintmail.com> In-Reply-To: <363658A9.FAD19060@gorean.org>
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On 27-Oct-98 Studded uttered: > Mike Nguyen wrote: >> >> On 27-Oct-98 Jeffrey J. Mountin uttered: >> > At 07:31 AM 10/27/98 -0500, Brian Feldman wrote: >> >>Let me repeat this once more: not a SINGLE script breaks with pdksh! >> > >> > Agreed, but on one of lists someone pointed out some other issues with >> > pdksh. This was quite a while back on -isp or -security. >> > >> > Korn is supposed to 100% bourne compatible. >> > >> > Coming from BSDi to FBSD, I was rather put out that I needed to install >> > it. >> > 8-) >> >> First thing I do when I install a new FreeBSD box is install the BSDi ksh >> binaries from the AT&T software reuse website as /bin/ksh. > > Do you have a URL for this? I'd love to give ksh a try. Doug, I got ksh93 from http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/reuse/ It's statically linked so I can run it in single-user (and therefore as root's shell). Downside is that it's about twice as big as /bin/sh, and it isn't freeware (free for non-commercial use). Otherwise it's very nice. I think I got this URL (or it's predecessor, before the AT&T/Lucent split) from the -current list a long whiles back. It's the so called 'astkit'. For some reason, the BSDi binaries weren't at www.kornshell.com. What you want is the ast-base-98, which has binaries only for BSDi. I don't know what the difference is between that and ast-base-97, which is what is available for all other platforms. Mike. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Nguyen <mikenguyen@sprintmail.com> - UNIX Sysadmin and Geek Pager (800) SKY-8888 pin# 1138368 or 1138368@skytel.com Your lucky number is 3552664958674928. Watch for it everywhere. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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