Re: [Hampshire] Shell script not working under Ubuntu Edgy /…

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Author: Tony Whitmore
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To: hampshire
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Shell script not working under Ubuntu Edgy / Feisty

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gpg: failed to create temporary file '/var/lib/lurker/.#lk0x5713b100.hantslug.org.uk.8794': Permission denied
gpg: keyblock resource '/var/lib/lurker/pubring.gpg': Permission denied
gpg: Signature made Fri May 4 09:41:05 2007 BST
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On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 09:24:36AM +0100, John Wesley wrote:
> On 04/05/07, Tony Whitmore <tony@???> wrote:
> >On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 08:26:51AM +0100, John Wesley wrote:
> >> I think Edgy uses Dash as it's shell rather than Bash. But I have no
> >idea
> >> if that's causing your problem!
> >
> >It is! :)
> >
> >Y'see I *knew* that sh was linked to dash, but I didn't know it had
> >changed
> >from Dapper to Edgy. Running "bash install" works.
>
> No probs - that's caught me out a few time too :)


I've ended up changing /bin/sh to point to /bin/bash not /bin/dash as the
software, once installed, has a lot of shell scripts that assume /bin/sh
points to bash. Rather than editing them all, I changed the symlink. I'm not
sure whether this will break anything else though? Any alarm bells?

Tony