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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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