[geeks] OpenSolaris ready for Production?

[Phil Stracchino]

Mike Meredith wrote:
> I'm not sure why Solaris 10 is scarier than OpenSolaris; after all you
> can simply install bash, do something like "/bin/bash -c true &&
> exec /bin/bash" in root's .profile, and a few other things and it won't
> seem much different.

I'm not familiar with that usage and can't quite make sense of what it
would do.  As far as I can see, '/bin/bash -c true' returns true if
'true' exists in the current directory and is a character special file,
which doesn't seem a useful test under the circumstances.


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