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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: bash-3.2.3-5


Eric Blake <ebb9 <at> byu.net> writes:

> Evil.  /bin/sh is supposed to be at the same version of bash, if you installed 
> things correctly.  It sounds like your postinstall scripts did not run 
> correctly (perhaps you had bash or sh open when you ran setup.exe?).  What are 
> the timestamps on those files ('ls -l /bin/{ba,}sh')?
> 
> At any rate, the fix is to rerun the postinstall scripts, or more 
> quickly, 'cp /bin/bash /bin/sh'.


Several machines at my site have turned up with the sh vs bash issue above, so I
think something might be amiss with the installation scripts.  The workaround of
copying  /bin/bash to /bin/sh works of course.




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