xfce-cpufreq plugin and upgrades

[Janne Jokitalo]

On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 10:58:24AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> That reminds me of the "sh" issue. By default it links to dash:
> [spinymouse at archlinux ~]$ ls /run/media/spinymouse/qrc/bin/sh -l 
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Oct 13 22:24 /run/media/spinymouse/qrc/bin/sh
> -> dash
> 
> This can be reconfigured by "sudo dpkg-reconfigure dash", I didn't do it
> until now. Note that the shebang doesn't solve the issue, I need to
> start the scripts with "bash" instead of "sh" (unimportant for the
> example below, that should run in dash too, not tested).
> 
> However, default nowadays usually is a link to bash, Ubunbtu Studio IMO
> should link to bash to, otherwise "averaged" "modern" scripts can't be
> run using sh.

This is not a Studio issue, and in fact is not an issue at all. Ubuntu has long
ago defaulted to using dash as the system shell, but bash as the login shell.

I doubt this will be changed back, and you can read up on the reasons at [0].

[0]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DashAsBinSh


Best regards,

-- 
Jaska (astraljava on freenode.net)
 
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 198 bytes
Desc: Digital signature
URL: <https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-studio-devel/attachments/20121023/041ce2ab/attachment.pgp>