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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Sat, 8 Jan 2005 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> sindi keesan wrote:
> > The ash shell in BL3 is part of busybox
>
> Yes.
>
> > perhaps I should also download the ash from
> > dietlibc?
>
> No need.

I installed it already and got /bin/ash 61K.  If it is identical to what 
is in busybox I will remove it and put back vt1 to /bin/sh.
 I installed the SW40 ash.tgz

> For BL3:  /etc/inittab
> For BL2:  /etc/passwd

I edited inittab but have not yet rebooted.  To run tcsh and zsh will I 
need to make up .login .cshrc .zshrc etc. before using those terminals?  I 
hope ash and bash can just use profile.

> > I also need bash to install dosemu - is it enough
> > to just have it on the computer?
>
> If your script starts with  #!/bin/bash  it will
> look for bash in the /bin directory.

#!/bin/sh is what it looked for.  Perhaps I should change the script and 
try to install again.  #!/bin/bash instead of /sh?  Dosemu did not work 
after apparently installing okay.


> > ash and bash (clones of UNIX Bourne shell bsh)
> > sh - don't know what this is, another clone of bsh?
>
> No, sh is the generic name for that family of shells.
> /bin/sh usually links to bash or ash or bsh.  And the
> scripts usually start with:  #!/bin/sh

In BL3 it islinked to busybox =ash?
I found ash and sh man pages, wih sh linked to ash.

> > I have installed bash and tcsh from SW40 and I will
> > install also the full ash (package around 50K)
>
> No point installing ash.  BL3 already has the full ash.
>
> > I also saw mention of sash (standalone sh) and scsh
> > (scheme sh).
>
> There are many different shells around, some very small.
> One of the smallest is msh (which is used by the loop
> version of BL3 to do the housekeeping necessary to mount
> the loop file).  If you have the loop version of BL3,
> you can execute msh like this:
> --------------
> /initrd/bin/sh
> --------------
> It is not user-friendly -- I removed help to save space.
Currently using the hd version.  Will play with this another time.
> Cheers,
> Steven
>
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