[plug] bash 2 & xdm

[John Summerfield]

On Sat, 1 Aug 1998, skribe wrote:

> 
> On 31-Jul-98 John Summerfield wrote:
> > I installed bash 2 from an RPM on my RH 5.0 system and now when I login
> > via xdm the screen flashes and returns to xdm.
> 
> This is not a direct answer to your question but is perhaps related.  Why
> isn't bash 2.x installed in Redhat 5.X?  Perhaps it messes around too much
> with their scripts.  I'm only guessing.  I had only cosmetic problems
> with my scripts using bash 2.x on my slackware based machine but I don't use
> xdm.  I'm still considering whether its worth upgrading my new RH box to it
> given that it doesn't come as the default.

I've removed it and reported a bug: it also breaks the autofs script at
line 133.

It seems that it can't cope with this
[ .... ] ||
inside a case statement, reporting a syntax error at the following ;;


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