[OT]: bash or any other $favourite{shell}? [was: Wish list]

Chris Benson chrisb at jesmond.demon.co.uk
Fri Jun 9 15:49:15 BST 2006


On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 03:12:33PM +0100, James Abbott wrote:
> Chris Benson wrote:
> >ws0cbe at sunray:~ $ uname -a ; ldd /bin/bash 
> [snip]
> >Does leave one rather vulnerable to damage to /lib.
> >  
> Not sure /sbin/sh is going to help you much if /lib is knackered....
> 
> jamesa at codon2 [jamesa] uname -a ; ldd /sbin/sh
> SunOS codon2 5.10 Generic_118822-30 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V890
>        libgen.so.1 =>   /lib/libgen.so.1

Bother ... I'd rather assumed that hadn't changed from Sol9.

Looks like the only useful thing you could do with a broken /lib is 
/sbin/umountall

Good job you can boot from the install media ... unless there's no DVD 
attached :-(  Better hope the jumpstart server's working!



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