sudo blocks aliases

Vram lamsokvr at xprt.net
Fri Dec 30 07:04:05 UTC 2005


On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 19:31 +1300, Tim Frost wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 17:07 +1100, Arlen Christian Mart Cuss wrote:
> > The same. But, when I `man dash', I get the *man page* for `sh'. *sh* is 
> > a link to bash.
> 
> But the man page is the *BSD* sh man page:
> SH(1)                     BSD General Commands Manual                    SH(1)
> 
> NAME
>      sh - command interpreter (shell)
> 
> 
> By comparison, both "man sh" and "man bash" get the man page for GNU
> Bourne-Again SHell:
> BASH(1)                                                                BASH(1)
> 
> NAME
>        bash - GNU Bourne-Again SHell
> 
> tim at marvin:~$ ls -l /usr/share/man/*/*sh.*.gz
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 69525 2005-10-06 01:16 /usr/share/man/man1/bash.1.gz
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root   713 2005-08-23 07:49 /usr/share/man/man1/bsh.1.gz
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root  1500 2005-10-12 05:14 /usr/share/man/man1/chsh.1.gz
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 21078 2005-05-12 21:26 /usr/share/man/man1/dash.1.gz
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root     9 2005-12-12 18:47 /usr/share/man/man1/sh.1.gz -> bash.1.gz
> 
> So there is a distinction.
> > 
> > celtic at xyrias:~$ ls -l `which sh`
> > lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 4 2005-12-02 04:13 /bin/sh -> bash
> > celtic at xyrias:~$
> 
> 
> Tim
> 
> 


I think FreeBSD is the ONLY one to run sh...

Someone correct me if I am wrong...


Vram




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