sudo blocks aliases

William Grant tanarrifujitsu at optusnet.com.au
Fri Dec 30 05:00:30 UTC 2005


On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 15:41 +1100, Peter Garrett wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Dec 2005 19:20:44 -0800 (PST)
> James Diehl <jms_diehl at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 
> > It's not a shell called Ubuntu.  In the synaptic pkg. mgr., if you switch to status mode, at the end of the line for each item under installed version/latest version, it will say Ubuntu or whatever.  If you open the tabs in the lower box, you can get a description and explanation for the items.
> 
> I'm utterly puzzled by your posts, James. Not even sure what the heck you
> are talking about.
> 
> The standard shell in Ubuntu is BASH
> 
> peter at prospero:~ $ echo $SHELL
> /bin/bash
> 
> It doesn't lack anything. As far as I know it's a complete and functional
> "Bourne Again Shell".  "sh" is also symlinked to bash:
> 
> peter at prospero:~ $ ls -l `which sh`
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 4 2005-10-22 14:50 /bin/sh -> bash
> 
> I have no idea what on earth this is about - if someone understands it, do
> please enlighten me...
> 
> Peter

Exactly what I said.

William.
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