As one of those "let's speed things up" exercises I decided to unbloat a lot of things by replacing the symlink /bin/sh -> /bin/bash with /bin/sh -> /bin/ash With a view also to getting my profile read in my xterms (SHLVL=3 typically) ... anyway most things run right, but something in /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions depends on bash rather than simple sh functionality. Suggest you make the dependency explicit in case anyone else gets caught cd /usr/local/rc.d/init.d perl -i -p -e 's:^#!\s*/bin/sh\s*$:#!/bin/bash: ;' *
Hmm.... we'll look and see what's being bash specific.
OK, after looking at this some, we've fixed a couple of things, but there are at least two bugs in ash (ash-0.2-18 will be in the next Raw Hide release.)
The latest initscripts (4.41-2) should fix all known problems of this sort.