[ale] changing dash to bash in ubuntu

Paul Cartwright ale at pcartwright.com
Fri Feb 18 21:28:36 EST 2011


>
> On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 9:15 PM, James Sumners<james.sumners at gmail.com>  wrote:
>    
>> >  I'm not liking this move to dash (Debian Shell) either. Debian 6.0
>> >  upgrades ask to make this switch. Anyway, what you need to do is this:
>> >
>> >  `sudo dpkg-reconfigure bash`
>> >
>> >  It will prompt you to make a yes or no choice -- choose "no"
I don't remember it asking me, and I'm now running squeeze
grep pbc /etc/passwd
pbc:x:1000:100:Paul C:/home/pbc:/bin/bash

# uname -a
Linux paulandcilla.homelinux.org 2.6.32-5-686 #1 SMP Wed Jan 12 04:01:41 
UTC 2011 i686 GNU/Linux

as of last night anyway...

-- 
Paul Cartwright



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