Help goofed up /bin/sh

Asked by Temo

Please help. I was happily using 8.04 and all was well until I decided to do some tinkering to get rid of an annoying update notice from firefox. It was coming from the /bin/sh file. I thought I could find it and put in the trash. If It didn't work I'd just put it back. Oh I was very wrong. My machine won't startup due to the missing file. How do I get it and put it back where it belongs? Have I made a non-corectable mistake? Grub loads ubuntu loads for a short bit then I get:

init: unable to execute "/bin/sh" for rcS: no such file or directory
init: rcS main process (2569) terminated with status 255
init: unable to execute "/bin/sh" for rc-default: no such file or directory
init: rc-default main process (2570) terminated with status 255

I have a windows box I'm on now. Yuck! Help

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Best Raybuntu (raybuntu) said :
#1

/bin/sh is a symbol link to /bin/dash
Type: sudo nautilus
-go to /bin
-right click on dash
-make link and call it sh

Greetings
Ray

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Temo (keilt) said :
#2

Raybuntu wrote:
> Your question #43679 on Ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/43679
>
> Status: Open => Answered
>
> Raybuntu proposed the following answer:
> /bin/sh is a symbol link to /bin/dash
> Type: sudo nautilus
> -go to /bin
> -right click on dash
> -make link and call it sh
>
>
> Greetings
> Ray
>
>
Ray, thanks for the reply. I started up on the live disk and figured out
what it was and how to copy it over. Solved

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Temo (keilt) said :
#3

Thanks Raybuntu, that solved my question.