Problem with update-menus command

[Earl Violet]

--- "D. Michael McIntyre" <michael.mcintyre at rosegardenmusic.com>
wrote:

> On Thursday 25 October 2007, Earl Violet wrote:
> 
> > I'm using Ubuntu 7.04.  When I run:
> >
> > sudo update-menus
> >
> > I get several screens of:
> >
> > sh: Illegal option -r
> >
> > Does anyone have any idea what this means?
> 
> I sure don't, but I have a guess.  We ran into a problem like this
> at 
> Rosegarden recently.  Lots of our scripts were set up to assume
> that /bin/sh 
> would be bash when it is in fact dash on a stock Ubuntu system, and
> bash 
> commands were choking dash.
> 
> I don't have an "update-menus" on this system, and don't really
> want to go see 
> about installing one.  I had a look at some other update-* scripts,
> and one 
> of them started with:
> 
> #/bin/sh -e
> 
> So I'm betting your update-menus script starts with:
> 
> #/bin/sh -r
> 
> That would work on a Debian system, I think, but not on Ubuntu.
> 
> $ sh -r
> sh: Illegal option -r
> $ ls -l /bin/sh
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            4 May 26 19:51 /bin/sh ->
> dash*
> 
> So my guess is very plausible.  This is probably a case of
> something Ubuntu 
> lifted from Debian but did not adapt to the change in which shell
> was going 
> to do the job of /bin/sh.
> 
> You can probably fix it by hacking the script to change /bin/sh to
> /bin/bash, 
> or by hacking the system level symlink so that /bin/sh points to
> /bin/bash 
> instead of /bin/dash.  Either way, a more permanent solution would
> have to 
> take place at the package maintainer patch level.
> -- 
> D. Michael McIntyre 

Another Linux miracle!!  When I ran update-menus today, there was no
problem.  You're right and the default is dash.  
  
I checked my home directory and it shows .bash_history .bash_logout
and .bashrc. 

Earl

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