sudo blocks aliases

[Tim Frost]

On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 20:58 -0800, James Diehl wrote:
> In my synaptic pkg. mgr. I can click the status button and see what I
> have installed, and not installed.  Below the pkg. window is another
> window and several tabs for description, dependency, installed,
> versions.  When I clicked the not installed, descriptions and
> versions, it listed the possible shells, which one was installed, the
> type, size and description for each one when I highlighted it.  I was
> interested in which one I should use because I wanted to install an
> oracle database on my system.  The installation instructions said I
> needed to make files with bash, and I couldn't until I switched to the
> larger Bourne Again shell.  I'm not making it up!  I don't know if
> this information is on all Ubuntu pkg. mgrs., but that's what it said
> in mine.  I browse through that thing all of the time, trying to find
> things to add to my system for developing.  Every time I try to work
> with a database or something, I end up going in there and adding
> another item!

The bash shell is in section "base", and is a dependency of
ubuntu-minimal.  As others have said, bash is the default shell for
users.
> 
To quote the dash description: 
 "dash" is a POSIX compliant shell that is much smaller than "bash".
 We take advantage of that by making it the shell on the installation
 root floppy, where space is at a premium.


Dash appears to be installed to support discover1



You can confirm that bash is your shell (and is used by root) by:
echo $SHELL

sudo -i
echo $SHELL

(sudo -i creates a root login shell, by running ~root/.bash_profile
and /etc/profile).


But, as others have indicated, you will have to modify your aliases to
work in Ubuntu because of its default setup using sudo.




Tim