BASH is not there

[shruti507]

Hi

when i type bash, bash prompt doesnt come, i dont know why, but how can i bring bash.

Thanks

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Precisely what error message do you see and under what shell are you executing "bash"? It sounds as though the bash executable is not in your PATH --- which is probably a very good thing. The POSIX shell on HP-UX is a modern, well-behaved shell. Whatever you do, do not make bash root's shell.

[Steven Schweda]

> [...] bash prompt doesnt come [...]

What _does_ happen? What does this do?:

type bash

> [...] how can i bring bash.

http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/

[Asif Sharif]

Hi,

Have you installed bash in your system? if not then download a copy and install it.

http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Shells/bash-3.2/

You need to install Run-time dependencies: "gettext libiconv termcap" also.

Before installing the Bash shell see the Stephenson recommendation.

Regards,
Asif Sharif

[shruti507]

Hi,
Using HPUX -11.1, with POSIX shell.

How i will install run-time dependencies: "gettext libiconv termcap" .

Plz tell me about Stephenson recommendation.

Regards,
Asif Sharif

[Arunvijai_4 · Accepted solution]

Hi,

You can download all these from http://hpux.connect.org.uk. Just search for bash and you will get everything you want.

-Arun

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

> Plz tell me about Stephenson recommendation.

What Clay is letting you know about *NOT* changing root's shell is this:

During startup, when '/usr' isn't mounted, and root runs a shell, there is no way for shells with dynamically linked libraries that live in '/usr' to run. This is the reason root's shell must *always* remain '/sbin/sh'. The '/sbin/sh' shell uses a statically linked libraries independent of '/usr'. If you change the default shell in '/etc/passwd' for the root account you will find yourself with a server that will not startup after a reboot!

The Posix shell used by HP-UX is available with static libraries as '/sbin/sh'. To reduce the memory footprint for normal users, a shared library implementation exists as '/usr/bin/sh'.

This does not prevent you from using a Bash shell, Simply do *not* modify root's default shell setting in '/etc/passwd' nor use anything other than '/sbin/sh' as the script interpreter in any startup scripts.

Regards!

...JRF...

[shruti507]

Thanks

When i was installing bash software i got erroe msg:
The dependencies for fileset "bash.bash-RUN, r=3.2" cant be resolved.

[RobinKing]

Did you download all the dependencies listed on http://hpux.connect.org.uk?

Build dependencies are: gettext, libiconv, make and termcap