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Old 02-20-2008, 07:32 AM
William Hunt
 
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Default Re: RESOLVED Re: VIP (Very Interesting Problem)

On Fri, 08 Apr 2005 16:56:49 +0000, Joost Kremers wrote:
> Handover Phist wrote:
>> Very strange one indeed, this one! And tracked down to the symlink
>> between /bin/sh and /bin/bash. I replaced it with sh -> bash as opposed
>> to sh -> /bin/bash
>>
>> ln -s bash sh

>
> this makes me ask myself two things: what would have happened if you had
> recreated the symlink as it was, i.e., `ln -s /bin/bash sh'? and how
> are your other symlinks functioning?


hmmm. my fresh 10.1 install has /bin/sh -> bash
So i wonder, also. how it got to be /bin/sh -> /bin/bash
in the first place.

big weirdness.


> oh, and another thing: how on earth did you figure this one out? or was it
> just a lucky guess?


yeah give that man one shiny silver Bozo point emblazoned
with a gold Clue.



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William Hunt, Portland Oregon USA

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