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1. Øyvind A. Holm Ubuntu users , Bourne Again SHell group

   Getting rid of damn #dash as /bin/sh symlink in !Ubuntu, using !bash instead. Solves many problems, e.g. /tmp mounted with 1Mb size.

   Wednesday, 07-Apr-10 07:57:00 UTC from web
   • John Gill

     @sunny256: the real problem is people using bash constructs in sh scripts #dash

     Wednesday, 07-Apr-10 07:58:46 UTC
   • Øyvind A. Holm Bourne Again SHell group , John Gill

     @swfiua Yep, I agree. It would be better to fix it and send patches, but !bash has been the de facto shell on GNU/POSIX systems...

     Wednesday, 07-Apr-10 08:20:05 UTC
   • Øyvind A. Holm Bourne Again SHell group , John Gill

     @swfiua ...for almost 20 years, so I think it's better to use !bash on production servers. (Oh, how I hate the 140 char limit...) :)

     Wednesday, 07-Apr-10 08:21:06 UTC
   • Øyvind A. Holm

     ...I'm not against a short length limit, it's good to be brief and concise, but IMHO 140 is too short, it can be a real hassle to trim it.

     Wednesday, 07-Apr-10 08:33:19 UTC
   • Børge A. Roum 140 Characters

     @sunny256 Seen my idea for a solution to !140? Some good ideas in the comments too (maybe even better :)) http://ur1.ca/tuw3

     Wednesday, 07-Apr-10 08:56:50 UTC
   • Steve Beattie

     @sunny256: ummm, say what? dash v. bash should have no impact on the size of paritions, including /tmp.

     Wednesday, 07-Apr-10 08:57:44 UTC
   • Øyvind A. Holm Posterous , Børge A. Roum

     @forteller A great idea! Could really work, something along the lines of twitlonger.com . BTW, cool you're on !Posterous. I love that place.

     Wednesday, 07-Apr-10 09:23:34 UTC
   • Øyvind A. Holm Steve Beattie

     @smb Something about !dash and the /etc/init.d/mountoverflowtmp init script makes Ubuntu 9.04 mount /tmp/ as "overflow" and 1Mb size.

     Wednesday, 07-Apr-10 09:29:12 UTC