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Aventail Connect won't install with dash shell

Asked by Chris Higgins

When I use 'dash' as my /bin/sh shell - ( it's the default ), Aventail Connect ( vpn SW )
won't install ..

Change the aventail scripts to use '#!/bin/bash' instead, and it works.

The scripts to change are (at least) the following
install.sh
/usr/bin/startct
/usr/bin/startctgui

So that's an anwer ;-)

The question is - why is /bin/dash the default ?

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Chris Fox (robotninja) said : 		#1

Hi,

The default shell was changed in Ubuntu 6.10 for efficiency reasons.

Common practice is for shell scripts specifying the default shell should only use standard POSIX features to ensure compatibility.

More information is available here:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DashAsBinSh
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DashAsBinSh/Spec

Cheers,

Chris

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