bash 3.01

[John Wildberger]

On Wednesday 25 August 2004 06:25 pm, Fraser Campbell wrote:
> 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.

I think you are a bit overcautious. I will take the risk and make bash-3.0 my 
default shell. Replacing /bin/bash with a symlink to my new bash-3.0 will do 
this just fine. There is always a risk that something can get broken, but 
this applies to any new program, not just to bash. The sun will still rise in 
the morning.
Cheers,
John
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