bash 3.01

[Tom Legrady]

It is generally not a good idea to edit /etc/passwd with "any old 
editor" .... if it is provided, us "vipw", which is a method for calling 
"vi" which ensures the integrity of the file.

William Park wrote:

>On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 10:21:55AM -0400, John Wildberger wrote:
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>>I downloaded and installed bash 3.01. The executable is now 
>>in /usr/local/bash-3.1/bash
>>The original bash 2.05b is in /bin/bash
>>What do I have to do to invoke bash 3.01 when starting up the system?
>>My system is Mandrake 10.
>>John
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>For login, edit /etc/passwd.  For your rc.* boot script, edit #!...
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