bash 3.01

[Fraser Campbell]

On August 22, 2004 10:21 am, John Wildberger wrote:

> What do I have to do to invoke bash 3.01 when starting up the system?
> My system is Mandrake 10.

As others have mention chsh is the safest/easiest way to change a user's 
shell.

If you meant "how do I make bash3 my default system shell?" (i.e. 
replacing /bin/sh) then I'd say the correct answer is don't do it ;-)  -- 
broken /bin/sh usually would force you to boot up from rescue media.

The bash 1 to 2 upgrade broke some scripts that we'd been running for a few 
years, I'd not be too surprised if bash 2 to 3 (based on history of 1 to 2 
upgrade) also introduces some incompatibilities.  If Mandrake provides a 
package for bash3 then they probably would have verified it's compatibility 
with their init scripts and it should be safe upgrade to that.

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