shell question

From: accy guy (accy_guy@yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Aug 29 2003 - 05:52:40 EDT


hi ,
 
 I hv inherited a few Solaris boxes (Solaris 8) and I installed the latest SUNWexplo package(4.1.1) on them . However , when i try to run it ...it returns the foll error and exits
 
 ./explorer[49]: sed: not found
./explorer[55]: ksh: not found
./explorer[85]: cat: not found
./explorer[86]: ps: not found
./explorer[86]: grep: not found
./explorer[86]: grep: not found
./explorer[86]: grep: not found
./explorer[86]: wc: not found
./explorer[87]: test: argument expected
Explorer starting.
./explorer[32]: date: not found
./explorer[32]: uname: not found
./explorer[32]: date: not found
./explorer[32]: sed: not found
./explorer[32]: uname: not found
 
Root's shell is /sbin/sh which on my boxes are linked to /usr/bin/bash (/usr is not a separate file system ,but is part of / ) .i tried running sh explorer, ksh explorer etc ...still it gives same error . Any idea why this is happening ?
 
I can think of some workarounds
1) remove the link to /usr/bin/bash and copy /sbin/sh from another machine running the same OS
2) change root's shell in /etc/passwd to /bin/ksh .
 
Just wanted to know if the above workarounds are safe ...or will I land up with a broken system
 
Thanks
accy
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