Subject: Re: corrupted /bin/sh
To: Ludovic Hirlimann , port-alpha <port-alpha@netbsd.org>
From: D'Arcy J.M. Cain <darcy@druid.net>
List: port-alpha
Date: 04/28/2002 07:26:03
On April 28, 2002 06:27 am, Ludovic Hirlimann wrote:
> Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 06:56:37PM +0200, Ludovic Hirlimann wrote:
> >>Hello,
> >>I've finnally norowed many of my problems. /bin/sh core dumps a lot on
> >>my machine. I need to rebuild it any pointers to instructions ?
> >
> > Couldn't you just extract the base distrib set again to get the binary ?
> > tar xzpvf base.tgz ./bin/sh
>
> I have tried this. I have the same results :-)
> What problems would arrise If i replaced /bin/sh by a soft link to
> /bin/ksh ?
I have done that in the past and it was good enough to get things rebuilt 
again.  I did a copy rather than a symlink though since I was about to 
overwrite it anyway with a new build.

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