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Thanks Steven, pointing the symlink /bin/sh to bash seems to have
done it. What was confusing me was that the variable SHELL remained
set to /bin/sh. This also confused Midnight Commander, which
continued to see the shell as sh, which it doesnt fully support.
Setting SHELL=/bin/bash in /etc/profile seems to have sorted this.
Only problem with it now that I can see, is that aliases set in
profile are still not honoured by MC. "dir" is not recognised
in MC, for example. Is there a way round this or is MC just
broken?

Ian.

In message <26508 AT freedomnet.org.uk> baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org writes:
> Sent this a couple of days ago but it seems that the little
> bit of snow we've had in the UK not only closed down half
> the country but also e-mail.
> 
> Hi, I have BL 3.5 installed on the hard drive and have been trying
> to work out how to replace its shell with bash. Ive pkg bash and
> I think its all in the right place. There is a real /bin/bash where
> there was once just a symlink. Im thinking that I have to alter
> one or more of the following /etc/initab, /etc/rc, /etc/profile,
> /etc/passwrd or perhaps replace the busybox init with another
> one. Ive tried a few combinations, for example using
> "export SHELL=/bin/bash" but the results have never been quite
> right. Bash might start but then down the line something goes
> wrong, for example I lose the cursor. Im sure I have all the
> libs that bash needs.
> 
> So what is the best way to replace sh with bash?
> 
> If you wonder why I might want to do this, two main reasons.
> 1. I am trying to learn bash scripting from a book I have.
> 2. I use Midnight commander and it doesnt work completely
> with sh. Aliases are not passed and the subshell will not
> work. For example, you cant run "dir" from within mc.
> 
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Bye now, Ian.

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