On Fri, 09 Feb 2007 00:20:49 +0100, Roman Zippel said: > > The point is, neither $BASH nor /bin/bash may be set. > > Is that really a problem? I think any system that has bash without > /bin/bash is simply broken. If you're trying to bootstrap a Linux box onto a new platform from some non-Linux Unixoid, it's possible that bash lives in $TOOLCHAIN/bin/bash. But I see that even Solaris 9 has a bash 2.05 in /bin/bash, so I might be talking out some odd orifice here.