01-24-2008
Solaris 8 installed but bash is not working
Hi All,
I've installed Solaris 8 and notice that bash is not working. I know we have other Sol8 boxes and bash is working on these boxes.
I believe Solaris 8 includes bash in full distribution, so does this mean the files on the CD are corrupted? Sol8 was burned on the CD1 and 2 so this is a possibility.
After the install, it seem /var was corrupted and running fsck seem to fix /var so I am wondering if there are other problems.
After installing Sol8 (or Sol9), what method do you use to test to ensure everything is working?
I am comtemplating reinstalling Sol8 but would have to do this if it's not necessary. I see that bash can be download from sunfreeware I believe, but is it supposed to come with Sol8 full distribution (I am assuming full distribution covers CD1 & CD2.
Taanks for your help.
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RBASH(1) General Commands Manual RBASH(1)
NAME
rbash - restricted bash, see bash(1)
RESTRICTED SHELL
If bash is started with the name rbash, or the -r option is supplied at invocation, the shell becomes restricted. A restricted shell is
used to set up an environment more controlled than the standard shell. It behaves identically to bash with the exception that the follow-
ing are disallowed or not performed:
o changing directories with cd
o setting or unsetting the values of SHELL, PATH, ENV, or BASH_ENV
o specifying command names containing /
o specifying a file name containing a / as an argument to the . builtin command
o specifying a filename containing a slash as an argument to the -p option to the hash builtin command
o importing function definitions from the shell environment at startup
o parsing the value of SHELLOPTS from the shell environment at startup
o redirecting output using the >, >|, <>, >&, &>, and >> redirection operators
o using the exec builtin command to replace the shell with another command
o adding or deleting builtin commands with the -f and -d options to the enable builtin command
o using the enable builtin command to enable disabled shell builtins
o specifying the -p option to the command builtin command
o turning off restricted mode with set +r or set +o restricted.
These restrictions are enforced after any startup files are read.
When a command that is found to be a shell script is executed, rbash turns off any restrictions in the shell spawned to execute the script.
SEE ALSO
bash(1)
GNU Bash-4.0 2004 Apr 20 RBASH(1)