Ackshully

Post #10,195 by pwhysall 9/22/01 5:53:32 AM Reply	Ackshully The HP/UX box I've got to play with at the moment (version 10.20.something) has regular sh as the default shell, with ksh and csh also available. "man sh" reveals no mention of a "POSIX shell". -- Peter Shill For Hire
Post #10,248 by kmself 9/22/01 11:15:01 PM Reply	IIRC... `/bin/sh` is the POSIX shell. There's another shell (/bin/??) which is the Bourne shell. `/bin/sh-old`? `/bin/ksh` is the Korn shell. This was back in 10.10 days, possibly 10.20, ~1996-1998. Try `apropos posix` for more info, enabling apropos if necessary. `-- Karsten M. Self [link\|mailto:kmself@ix.netcom.com\|kmself@ix.netcom.com] What part of "gestalt" don't you understand?`
Post #10,259 by static 9/23/01 8:05:27 AM Reply	It's possible to change it. I'm not sure just how you're supposed to change it, though, and a sym-link doesn't strike me as the way HP would do it. It's been a few years since I've played on HP-UX. There should be a /bin/posix-sh, though, which will definitely be the POSIX shell. In practice, there's very little between them. Wade. "All around me are nothing but fakes Come with me on the biggest fake of all!"
Post #10,653 by wharris2 9/27/01 3:28:59 AM Reply	Shows up on my manual page NAME sh - overview of various system shells SYNOPSIS POSIX Shell: sh [+-aefhikmnoprstuvx] [+-o option] ... [-c string] [arg ...] rsh [+-aefhikmnoprstuvx] [+-o option] ... [-c string] [arg ...] Bourne Shell: sh [--acefhiknrstuvx ...] [arg ...] rsh [--acefhiknrstuvx ...] [arg ...] (and so forth) Basically, this sh(1) page tells you what the shells are and which manual page to look at in order to get the detailed information. Perhaps on your HPUX they didn't update the man pages when/if they upgraded to 10.20? Who knows how empty the sky is In the place of a fallen tower. Who knows how quiet it is in the home Where a son has not returned. -- Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966)
Post #10,748 by pwhysall 9/28/01 3:02:07 AM Reply	It's a strange box Only has a 2 user licence, only has X installed. There's no telnet server. It's running Oracle and gawd only knows what's been done to it. -- Peter Shill For Hire
Post #10,762 by static 9/28/01 8:49:00 AM Reply	That is very odd. The two-user license I understand; IIRC a default HP-UX install ships like that. There are "patches" you buy to give you more users. But no telnet server? That's a bizarre omission. I thought HP loved telnet. Wade. "All around me are nothing but fakes Come with me on the biggest fake of all!"

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