Re: Solaris 2.5 syslog startup failure

Lauren writes:
>The file /etc/init.d/syslog in Solaris 2.5.1 (Sparc version, latest
>patch set), does not identify which shell should execute it.
>If root
is set to use csh (instead of sh or ksh), syslog will fail to start.

Whoa here. I agree its a bug but be *extreamly* shy about using anything
except /sbin/sh for root's shell.. Why? well the files in /sbin are different
than /usr/bin for a reason. They are -statically linked- Unless you have
a statically linked version of csh you had better think twice about using
it for roots shell. The first time you can't mount /usr(/lib) because of
a problem and need to boot single user mode to fix it, you will be glad
you have a static version of the shell.

Brad
Received on Jul 03 1997