topic Re: BASH for HPUX in Operating System - HP-UX

BASH for HPUX

panks — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 17:29:09 GMT

How can I install bash for HPUX ?

Thanks

Re: BASH for HPUX

Torsten. — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 06:19:40 GMT

If you really think you need it - just like any other software:

Download and install with swinstall.

~~http://hpux.asknet.de/hppd/hpux/Shells/bash-3.2/~~

[Moderator edit: The above link is no longer valid. Please refer to https://support.hpe.com/]

Re: BASH for HPUX

Patrick Wallek — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 17:33:56 GMT

If you do install BASH on your HP-UX server, make absolutely sure that you DO NOT change the default shell for root.

root's shell MUST be /sbin/sh. If it is anything else you could render your server unbootable.

Re: BASH for HPUX

panks — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 17:35:49 GMT

No, I will not change the shell. Whenever I want to use the bash, I will type bash and will use it. Is that ok ??

Re: BASH for HPUX

Anka — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 17:37:54 GMT

Bash is not officially supported, you will not get help from HP support if problems with it arise ;)

Re: BASH for HPUX

Patrick Wallek — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 17:46:21 GMT

Panks,

Yes, that will work.

Re: BASH for HPUX

panks — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 17:53:06 GMT

I installed the bash !! But I found that it is under path /usr/loca/bin/bash, which is not under the path of systems. So I tried to modify the .profile but then later when tried to execute it to take the new path effect it replied with that no execute permission. When I check I found that it is having read-only with bin:bin perm

-r--r--r-- 1 bin bin 964 Jun 17 14:44 .profile

Also,
-r--r--r-- 1 bin bin 2458 Jun 17 14:46 /etc/profile

So, where I can change the path variable in HPUX, b'cs I use to change in solaris and aix by modifying .profile.

One more thing when I tried to execute the bash manually it replies with

# ./bash
/usr/lib/hpux32/dld.so: Unable to find library 'libtermcap.so'.
Killed

Pls let me know !!

Re: BASH for HPUX

Torsten. — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 17:55:43 GMT

Why do you want bash?

Did you logout and login again after changing the profile?

Did you install the Run-time dependencies:

gettext libiconv termcap

Re: BASH for HPUX

panks — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 17:59:46 GMT

Where I can get those run time libraries, I mean which CD ? And profile file is having the read permission, so is that ok, if i ll make a change and logout and login

Re: BASH for HPUX

Torsten. — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 06:21:23 GMT

>>
Run-time dependencies:

gettext libiconv termcap

These are links on this page!

~~http://hpux.asknet.de/hppd/hpux/Shells/bash-3.2/~~

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Re: BASH for HPUX

panks — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 18:41:47 GMT

Thanks, I have found the solution.

Re: BASH for HPUX

Dennis Handly — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 19:11:32 GMT

>When I check I found that it is having read-only with bin:bin perm
>-r--r--r-- 1 bin bin .profile

You can just change the ownership and permissions of the file.

>-r--r--r-- 1 bin bin /etc/profile

Since only root can edit this, you don't need to change the permissions.

>where I can change the path variable in HP-UX, because I use to change in solaris and aix by modifying .profile.

You can either change each user's .profile (probably not so good of an idea since they could just change their shell). Or you could just add it to root's PATH.

Or you can change /etc/PATH if you want everyone to see it.