Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2001 10:04:23 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> Cc: Jason Vervlied <jvervlied@hway.net>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bash in /usr/local/bin? Message-ID: <20010811100423.C20950@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <20010810233817.A22595@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>; from brooks@one-eyed-alien.net on Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 11:38:17PM -0700 References: <3B74D180.D036D629@hway.net> <20010810233817.A22595@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>
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On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 11:38:17PM -0700, Brooks Davis wrote: > On Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 02:32:32AM -0400, Jason Vervlied wrote: > > Is there a reason why the bash shell is kept in /usr/local/bin. I would > > personally prefer to use it for my root shell, but if I remember right, > > root needs to have something that is in /bin (I could be wrong). If I do > > need a shell located in /bin for root would it break anything if I moved > > bash from /usr/local/bin to /bin (yes I know I woudl have to update > > /etc/shells)? > > Assuming it was compiled staticly (a quick glance at the port's Makefile > seems to indicate it should be) it should work. If it's dynamicly linked > it won't work because the libs are in /usr which isn't mounted in single > user mode. /usr/local/bin/bash: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (FreeBSD), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped -- | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands email: wilko@FreeBSD.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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